Extension of the application of conway-maxwell-poisson models: Analyzing traffic crash data exhibiting underdispersion

Risk Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1268-1276

  Lord, Dominique ^a   Geedipally, Srinivas Reddy ^a   Guikema, Seth D ^b  

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

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conway Maxwell Poisson; gamma models; negative binomial models; regression models; underdispersion

Indexed keywords

CONWAY-MAXWELL-POISSON; GAMMA MODELS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; REGRESSION MODEL; UNDERDISPERSION;

DATA REDUCTION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 77955889152     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01417.x     Document Type: Article

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