Distinguishing between rural and urban road segment traffic safety based on zero-inflated negative binomial regression models

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yan, Xuedong ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   An, Meiwu ^b   Zhang, Cuiping ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Saint Louis County Highways and Traffic and Public Works   (United States)

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EID: 84871365321     PISSN: 10260226     EISSN: 1607887X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/789140     Document Type: Article

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