Modeling over-dispersed crash data with a long tail: Examining the accuracy of the dispersion parameter in Negative Binomial models

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 5-6, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-16

  Zou, Yajie ^a   Wu, Lingtao ^b   Lord, Dominique ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Dispersion parameter; Empirical Bayes; Negative Binomial; Sichel; Traffic crashes

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

DISPERSION PARAMETERS; EMPIRICAL BAYES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; SICHEL; TRAFFIC CRASHES;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 84924858136     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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