Traffic accident segmentation by means of latent class clustering

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1257-1266

  Depaire, Benoît ^a   Wets, Geert ^a   Vanhoof, Koen ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Injury analysis; Latent class clustering; Traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA REDUCTION; FLOW OF SOLIDS; HEALTH; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTER-BASED; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; DATA ANALYSIS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; ELSEVIER (CO); HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC; LATENT CLASS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 46149097412     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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