Sample-size guidelines for recalibrating crash prediction models: Recommendations for the highway safety manual

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 160-168

  Shirazi, Mohammadali ^a   Lord, Dominique ^a   Geedipally, Srinivas Reddy ^b  

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration factor; Crash prediction models; Monte Carlo simulation; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CALIBRATION; FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING;

CALIBRATION FACTORS; CALIBRATION PROCESS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CRASH PREDICTION; LOCAL CONDITIONS; PREDICTION MODEL; SAMPLE SIZES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

CAR DRIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84968820895     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2016.04.011     Document Type: Article

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