reventing suicide is an important issue facing mental health workers. Predicting geographic regions where the risk of suicide is high could help people decide where to increase or improve mental health resources and care. Some psychiatrists have argued that homicide and suicide rates may be correlated, areas with high rates of homicide might be predicted to have high rates of suicide. Data was collected from 2015 for 11 counties in Ohio with sufficient information for homicides and suicides to construct the least-squares regression line for predicting suicide rate from homicide rate. suicide rate = 14.306 - 0.0492 * homicide rate The homicide rate is the explanatory variable and the suicide rate is the response variable