Effects of sample size on goodness-of-fit statistic and confidence intervals of crash prediction models subjected to low sample mean values

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1950, 2006, Pages 35-43

  Agrawal, Ravi ^a   Lord, Dominique ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND VEHICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CRASH PREDICTION MODELS; DATA SETS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS (GLM); GOODNESS-OF-FIT (GOF);

SAMPLED DATA CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749648762     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1950-05     Document Type: Conference Paper

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