The predictive validity of empirical Bayes estimates of road safety

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1964-1969

  Elvik, Rune ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accident prediction; Before and after study; Empirical Bayes method; Road safety; Test

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; FORECASTING; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACCIDENT PREDICTION; ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODELS; ACCURATE; BEFORE-AND-AFTER STUDY; EMPIRICAL BAYES; EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; NEGATIVE BINOMIALS; PREDICTION ERRORS; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCES; ROAD SAFETIES; ROAD SAFETY; ROAD SECTIONS; UNBIASED ESTIMATES;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS;

EID: 54949105374     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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