Extracting decision rules from police accident reports through decision trees

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 1151-1160

  De Oña, Juan ^a   López, Griselda ^a   Abellán, Joaquín ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b NLP and IR Group at UNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

C4.5; CART; Decision rules; Decision trees; Severity; Traffic accident

Indexed keywords

C4.5; CART; CRASH SEVERITY; DECISION RULES; DECISION TREES (DTS); LIGHTING CONDITIONS; ROAD SAFETY; RURAL HIGHWAYS; SEVERITY; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

DECISION TREES;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; ROADS; SAFETY; TRAFFICABILITY; TRANSPORT;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; SPAIN; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; SPAIN;

EID: 84870293161     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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