Characterizing the distribution of injury and injury severity for belted front-seat occupants involved in frontal crashes

International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury - 2009 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 155-167

  Segui Gomez, Maria ^a   Lopez Valdes, Francisco J ^a,b   Crandall, Jeff R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Injury probability; Velocity

Indexed keywords

CDS; CRASH SEVERITY; FRONTAL AIRBAGS; FRONTAL CRASHES; INJURY SEVERITY; LIMITED RISK; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; PASSENGER VEHICLES; SERIOUS INJURIES; SEVERITY OF INJURIES;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84855900621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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