Examining application of aggregated and disaggregated Poisson-gamma models subjected to low sample mean bias

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2136, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Lord, Dominique ^a   Mahlawat, Maneesh ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Office of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Coscend Communications Solutions LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

AGGREGATED MODELS; CRASH DATA; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; GAMMA MODELS; INVERSE-DISPERSION; MEAN VALUES; POISSON GAMMAS; SAMPLE MEANS; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 76749158473     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2136-01     Document Type: Article

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