Assessing causality in multivariate accident models

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 253-264

  Elvik, Rune ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accident prediction models; Assessment; Causality; Criteria

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT COUNTS; ACCIDENT MODELS; ACCIDENT PREDICTION MODEL; ASSESSMENT; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CAUSALITY; CRITERIA; MODEL CONTROL; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL MODELS; SAFETY TREATMENTS; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION;

ACCIDENTS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CAUSALITY; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 78649946362     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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