Investigation of time and weather effects on crash types using full Bayesian multivariate Poisson lognormal models

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-99

  El Basyouny, Karim ^a   Barua, Sudip ^a   Islam, Md Tazul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Full Bayesian estimation; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Poisson lognormal regression; Random parameters; Weather elements

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CODES (SYMBOLS); HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; METEOROLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; POISSON LOGNORMAL REGRESSIONS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; WEATHER ELEMENTS;

SNOW;

RAIN; SNOW;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; RISK; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WIND;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RAIN; RISK; SAFETY; SNOW; WIND;

EID: 84907349852     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2014.08.014     Document Type: Article

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