Comparison of sichel and negative binomial models in estimating empirical bayes estimates

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2392, 2013, Pages 11-21

  Zou, Yajie ^a   Lord, Dominique ^a   Zhang, Yunlong ^a   Peng, Yichuan ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CRASH DATA; CRASH PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL BAYES ESTIMATES; EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; HOTSPOTS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; PREDICTION MODELLING; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; TWO SOURCES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84897133461     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2392-02     Document Type: Article

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