Diagnostic analysis of the logistic model for pedestrian injury severity in traffic crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1267-1278

  Sze, N N ^a   Wong, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Binary logistic regression; Hosmer Lemeshow statistic; Injury severity; Interaction effect; Logistic regression diagnostics; Pedestrian casualty

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISKS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION; HOSMER-LEMESHOW STATISTIC; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERACTION EFFECT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION DIAGNOSTICS; PEDESTRIAN CASUALTY;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WALKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34848909556     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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