Examining driver injury severity in two vehicle crashes - A copula based approach

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 120-135

  Yasmin, Shamsunnahar ^a   Eluru, Naveen ^a   Pinjari, Abdul R ^b   Tay, Richard ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copula methods; Injury severity profiles; Joint multinomial logit and ordered logit model; Two vehicle crashes

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; VEHICLES;

COPULA METHODS; DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; DRIVER INJURY SEVERITIES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; INJURY SEVERITY; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; VEHICLE CRASHES;

ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; COPULA METHODS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY PROFILES; JOINT MULTINOMIAL LOGIT AND ORDERED LOGIT MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TWO VEHICLE CRASHES;

COPULA METHODS; INJURY SEVERITY PROFILES; JOINT MULTINOMIAL LOGIT AND ORDERED LOGIT MODEL; TWO VEHICLE CRASHES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84894140285     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.01.018     Document Type: Article

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