Road casualties and enforcement: Distributional assumptions of serially correlated count data

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 300-308

  Yannis, George ^a   Antoniou, Constantinos ^a   Papadimitriou, Eleonora ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Enforcement; Generalized Linear Models; Negative Binomial; Poisson; Road Safety; Serial Correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAR DRIVING; GREECE; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; GREECE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34548125270     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580701369241     Document Type: Article

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