Comparison of a linear and a non-linear model for using sensory-motor, cognitive, personality, and demographic data to predict driving ability in healthy older adults

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1759-1768

  Hoggarth, Petra A ^a,b   Innes, Carrie R H ^a,c   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a,b,d   Severinsen, Julie E ^e   Jones, Richard D ^a,b,c,d  

^a Van der Veer Institute New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e BURWOOD HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive assessment; Driving; Fitness to drive; Sensory motor assessment

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; DIGITAL STORAGE; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROADS AND STREETS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION; COGNITIVE ASSESSMENTS; DRIVING; FITNESS TO DRIVES; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY MOTORS;

SENSORY ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHARACTER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISABILITY; DRIVER LICENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEW ZEALAND; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVER EXAMINATION; CAUSALITY; CHARACTER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEW ZEALAND; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS;

EID: 78049379811     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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