Estimating national road crash fatalities using aggregate data

International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 249-254

  Ahmed, Anwaar ^a   Khan, Beenish Akbar ^a   Khurshid, Muhammad Bilal ^a   Khan, Muhammad Babar ^a   Waheed, Abdul ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY NUST   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

aggregate data; Pakistan; prediction; road national highway accidents; underreporting

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; CHEMICAL BINDING; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; MORTALITY RATE; PAKISTAN; POLICE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DATA ACCURACY; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAKISTAN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84977136940     PISSN: 17457300     EISSN: 17457319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17457300.2014.992352     Document Type: Article

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