A caution about using deviance information criterion while modeling traffic crashes

Safety Science

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 495-498

  Geedipally, Srinivas Reddy ^a   Lord, Dominique ^b   Dhavala, Soma Sekhar ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

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

^c DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance information criterion; Negative binomial; Poisson Gamma; Traffic crashes

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; DEVIANCE INFORMATION CRITERION; DEVIANCE INFORMATION CRITERIONS (DIC); MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; POISSON GAMMAS; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION; TRAFFIC CRASHES;

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVIANCE INFORMATION CRITERION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODEL; POISSON GAMMA MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84886840654     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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