Pitfalls of using R2 to evaluate goodness of fit of accident prediction models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1542, 1996, Pages 6-13

  Miaou, Shaw Pin ^a   Lu, An ^b   Lum, Harry S ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c Federal Highway Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODELS; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0030286178     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1542-02     Document Type: Article

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