define equivocal death analysis
Equivocal death analysis (EDA) was a term coined by behavioral scientists at the Federal Bureau of Investigation to describe their analyses of equivocal deaths for law enforcement (Ault et al. ; Poythress et al.
The study of suicide, known as suicidology, originated in the 1940s with Edwin Shneidman, Ph.D., and three Los Angeles, California, colleagues: Norman Farberow, Ph.D.; Robert Litman, M.D.; and Mickey Heilig, MSW.