A Bayesian analysis of multi-level spatial correlation in single vehicle motorcycle crashes in Ohio

Safety Science

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-10

  Flask, Thomas ^a   Schneider, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional autoregressive distribution; Hierarchical Bayes; Mixed effects; Negative binomial model; Spatial random effects; Uncorrelated random effects

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE; HIERARCHICAL BAYES; MIXED EFFECTS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; RANDOM EFFECTS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MOTORCYCLES; RANDOM PROCESSES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEHICLES;

ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867786262     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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