Comparison of road crashes incidence and severity between some French counties

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 537-547

  Amoros, E ^a,b   Martin, J L ^a   Laumon, B ^a  

^a Fr Res Inst Transp Safety   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aggregated data; County; Interaction; Logistic; Negative binomial; Over dispersion

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FRANCE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FRANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 0037651877     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(02)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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