A Comparative Study of Count Models: Application to Pedestrian-Vehicle Crashes Along Malaysia Federal Roads

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 630-638

  Pour, Mehdi Hossein ^a   Prasetijo, Joewono ^a   Yahaya, Ahmad Shukri ^a   Ghadiri, Seyed Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

count models; hurdle model; model selection criteria; overdisperion; vehicle pedestrian crashes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INJURY; MALAYSIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING;

EID: 84880952911     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2012.736649     Document Type: Article

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