Quantile effects of causal factors on crash distributions

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2279, 2012, Pages 40-46

  Qin, Xiao ^a  

^a South Dakota State University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL MEANS; COVARIATES; CRASH DATA; CRASH FREQUENCY; CRASH MODELLING; DATA HETEROGENEITY; MODELLING STRATEGIES; QUANTILE REGRESSION; STANDARD ERRORS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

EID: 84869149564     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2279-05     Document Type: Article

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