The relationship between truck accidents and geometric design of road sections: Poisson versus negative binomial regressions

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 471-482

  Miaou, Shaw Pin ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric design; Negative binomial; Poisson; Truck accidents; Zero inflated Poisson

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; POLYNOMIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRUCKS;

GEOMETRIC DESIGN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOMENT ESTIMATOR; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; POISSON REGRESSION; ROAD SECTIONS; TRUCK ACCIDENTS; ZERO INFLATED POISSON REGRESSION;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0028486329     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(94)90038-8     Document Type: Article

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