A note on modeling road accident frequency: A flexible elasticity model

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2104-2111

  Couto, António ^a   Ferreira, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Negative binomial; Regression models; Road accident models; Translog function

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT FREQUENCY; ACCIDENT MODELS; ACCIDENT RISKS; COUNT DATA MODELS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; ELASTICITY MODEL; ELASTICITY VALUES; ESTIMATION PARAMETERS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GOODNESS-OF-FIT STATISTICS; HOT SPOT; INTERACTION EFFECT; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MODELING METHODOLOGY; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION MODEL; RESIDUAL ANALYSIS; ROAD SAFETY; TRANSLOG;

ELASTICITY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; ROADS AND STREETS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 79961170819     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.05.033     Document Type: Article

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