Modeling traffic crash rates of road segments through a lognormal hurdle framework with flexible scale parameter

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 928-940

  Ma, Lu ^a   Yan, Xuedong ^a   Weng, Jinxian ^a,b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

crash rates; hurdle model; mixed distribution; scale parameter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COPYRIGHTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CRASH RATE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LOCATION PARAMETERS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MIXED DISTRIBUTION; MODELING FLEXIBILITY; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCALE PARAMETER;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 84936115552     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: 20423195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/atr.1322     Document Type: Article

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