Modeling injury severity of multiple occupants of vehicles: Copula-based multivariate approach

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2165, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Eluru, Naveen ^a   Paleti, Rajesh ^a   Pendyala, Ram M ^b   Bhat, Chandra R ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; TRUCKS;

COMPLEX MODEL; CRASH INJURY SEVERITY; DATA SET; ESTIMATION RESULTS; INJURY PROFILES; INJURY SEVERITY; MODEL ESTIMATION; MODELLING SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH; SIMULTANEOUS MODEL;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 78651268474     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2165-01     Document Type: Article

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