Linguistic Diversity and Traffic Accidents: Lessons from Statistical Studies of Cultural Traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Roberts, Seán ^a   Winters, James ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EXTRAMARITAL SEX; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL DESCENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MASS MEDIUM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NOMOTHETIC STUDY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS; THEORY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACACIA; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CULTURE; EXTRAMARITAL RELATIONS; HUMAN MIGRATION; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84881515977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070902     Document Type: Article

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