Measuring direct and indirect treatment effects using safety performance intervention functions

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1125-1132

  El Basyouny, Karim ^a   Sayed, Tarek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Full Bayes estimation; Intervention models; Poisson lognormal regression; Random parameters models; Treatment effectiveness index

Indexed keywords

BAYES ESTIMATION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DATA SETS; DIRECT TREATMENT; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODIFICATION FACTORS; POISSON-LOGNORMAL REGRESSION; RANDOM PARAMETERS; ROAD IMPROVEMENT; SAFETY EVALUATIONS; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAFETY PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; SAFETY PROGRAMS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS INDEX; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

RESEARCH; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856422403     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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