Reducing treatment selection bias for estimating treatment effects using propensity score method

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-118

  Park, Peter Young Jin ^a   Saccomanno, Frank Fedel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Railroad grade crossings; Safety; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

PROPENSITY SCORE METHOD; PROSPENSITY SCORE MODEL; RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS;

RAILROAD CROSSINGS;

COLLISION; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 33846437810     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2007)133:2(112)     Document Type: Article

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