Application of finite mixture of negative binomial regression models with varying weight parameters for vehicle crash data analysis

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 1042-1051

  Zou, Yajie ^a   Zhang, Yunlong ^a   Lord, Dominique ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash data; Dispersion; Finite mixture model; Negative binomial; Weight parameter

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CRASH DATA; DATA SETS; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FINITE MIXTURE MODELS; FINITE MIXTURES; FITTING RESULTS; GROUP CLASSIFICATION; IN-VEHICLE; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL; REGRESSION MODEL; STATISTICAL FITTING; TWO-COMPONENT; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY; VEHICLE CRASHES; WEIGHT PARAMETER;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; MIXTURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CANADA; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ONTARIO; RURAL POPULATION; TEXAS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84870301269     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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