Regional analysis of road mortality in Europe

Public Health

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 826-837

  Eksler, V ^a   Lassarre, S ^a   Thomas, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; GLMM; MCMC; NUTS; Relative risk; Road mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY RISK; NOMENCLATURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EUROPEAN UNION; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; EUROPE; HUMANS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 50249110905     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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