Exploring road mortality ratios in Europe: National versus regional realities

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-144

  Lassarre, Sylvain ^a   Thomas, Isabelle ^b  

^a Laboratory of Driver Psychology   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Europe; International comparisons; Mortality; Road accidents; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844259568     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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