Examination of crash variances estimated by Poisson-gamma and Conway-Maxwell-Poisson models

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2241, 2011, Pages 59-67

  Geedipally, Srinivas ^a   Lord, Dominique ^b  

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CONWAY-MAXWELL-POISSON; CONWAY-MAXWELL-POISSON DISTRIBUTIONS; DATA SET; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; POISSON GAMMAS; POISSON MODEL; PROBABILISTIC DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84855399519     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2241-07     Document Type: Article

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