Quantile regression provides a fuller analysis of speed data

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 502-510

  Hewson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B spline; Community speed watch; Intervention; Non parametric; Quantile regression; Speed

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY FACTOR; SPEED CONTROL;

COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH; QUANTILE REGRESSION; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS;

GROUND VEHICLES;

ARTICLE; CAR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 40149086544     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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