Bayesian mixture modeling approach to account for heterogeneity in speed data

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 662-673

  Park, Byung Jung ^a   Zhang, Yunlong ^a   Lord, Dominique ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Finite mixture; Heterogeneity; Multimodality; Skewness; Speed distribution

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MIXTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAVEL TIME;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; FINITE MIXTURES; HETEROGENEITY; MULTI-MODALITY; SKEWNESS; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS;

SPEED;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SKEWNESS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 77952954357     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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