Alternative Ordered Response Frameworks for Examining Pedestrian Injury Severity in New York City

Journal of Transportation Safety and Security

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 275-300

  Yasmin, Shamsunnahar ^a   Eluru, Naveen ^a   Ukkusuri, Satish V ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comparison of ordered response models; generalized ordered logit model; latent segmentation based ordered logit model; pedestrian safety; validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899790370     PISSN: 19439962     EISSN: 19439970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19439962.2013.839590     Document Type: Article

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