Evaluating median crossover likelihoods with clustered accident counts an empirical inquiry using the random effects negative binomial model

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1635, 1998, Pages 44-48

  Shankar, Venkataraman N ^a   Albin, Richard B ^a   Milton, John C ^a   Mannering, Fred L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MEDIAN CROSSOVER ACCIDENTS; RANDOM EFFECTS NEGATIVE BINOMIAL (RENB);

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0032157430     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1635-06     Document Type: Review

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