A multivariate tobit analysis of highway accident-injury-severity rates

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 110-119

  Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^a   Shankar, Venky N ^b   Haddock, John E ^a   Mannering, Fred L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident injury severity rates; Censoring; Contemporaneous error correlation; Interstate highways; Multivariate tobit regression; Roadway geometrics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT-INJURY-SEVERITY RATES; CENSORING; CONTEMPORANEOUS ERROR CORRELATION; INTERSTATE HIGHWAY; MULTIVARIATE TOBIT; ROADWAY GEOMETRICS;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WASHINGTON; WEATHER; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84455178847     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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