Bayesian road safety analysis: Incorporation of past evidence and effect of hyper-prior choice

Journal of Safety Research

Volumn 46, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-40

  Miranda Moreno, Luis F ^a   Heydari, Shahram ^a   Lord, Dominique ^b   Fu, Liping ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; hyper prior assumptions; past evidence; road safety

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELS; HYPER-PRIOR ASSUMPTIONS; PAST EVIDENCE; ROAD SAFETY; ROAD SAFETY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN APPROACH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HYPER-PRIOR ASSUMPTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PAST EVIDENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROAD SAFETY; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; HYPER-PRIOR ASSUMPTIONS; PAST EVIDENCE; ROAD SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; TEXAS;

EID: 84878699908     PISSN: 00224375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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