Investigation of effects of underreporting crash data on three commonly used traffic crash severity models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2241, 2011, Pages 51-58

  Ye, Fan ^a   Lord, Dominique ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

CRASH DATA; CRASH SEVERITY; CRASH SEVERITY MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MIXED LOGIT MODELS; MODELING PROCESS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; RANDOM SAMPLE; THREE MODELS; TRAFFIC CRASHES; MIXED LOGIT; ORDERED PROBIT;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84855369995     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2241-06     Document Type: Article

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