Speed as a risk factor in serious run-off-road crashes: Bayesian case-control analysis with case speed uncertainty

Journal of Transportation and Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-28

  Davis, Gary A ^a   Davuluri, Sujay ^b   Pei, Jianping ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control; Logit model; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Speed limits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845971508     PISSN: 10948848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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