Evaluation of Multivariate Poisson Log Normal Bayesian Methods for Before-After Road Safety Evaluations

Journal of Transportation Safety and Security

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 193-210

  Lan, Bo ^a   Persaud, Bhagwant ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian method; before after studies; deviance information criterion; empirical Bayes; multivariate Poisson log normal; treatment effect analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864647768     PISSN: 19439962     EISSN: 19439970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19439962.2011.649194     Document Type: Article

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