The negative binomial-Lindley distribution as a tool for analyzing crash data characterized by a large amount of zeros

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1738-1742

  Lord, Dominique ^a   Geedipally, Srinivas Reddy ^b  

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data; Negative binomial distribution; Negative binomial Lindley distribution; Poisson distribution; Safety

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; COUNT DATA; CRASH DATA; DATA SETS; HEAVY-TAILS; HIGHWAY SAFETY; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL-LINDLEY DISTRIBUTION; NUMBER OF ZEROS; OBSERVED DATA; STATISTICAL TOOLS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79958189547     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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