Bayesian approach with the power prior for road safety analysis

Transportmetrica

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-51

  Lee, Soobeom ^a   Choi, Jaisung ^a   Kim, Seong W ^b  

^a University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Accident reduction effect; Empirical Bayes method; Historical data; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Power prior

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT REDUCTION; EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; HISTORICAL DATA; METROPOLIS-HASTINGS ALGORITHM; POWER PRIOR;

ACCIDENTS; ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; ROADS AND STREETS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77956402996     PISSN: 18128602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18128600902929609     Document Type: Article

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