Predicting driver injury severity in single-vehicle and two-vehicle crashes with boosted regression trees

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2514, Issue , 2015, Pages 138-148

  Lee, Chris ^a   Li, Xuancheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRUCK DRIVERS;

ANNUAL AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFICS; BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE MODELS; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DRIVER AGE; DRIVER INJURY SEVERITIES; INJURY SEVERITY; NONPARAMETRICS; REGRESSION TREE MODELS; VEHICLE CRASHES;

TRUCKS;

EID: 84975880637     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2514-15     Document Type: Article

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