Analysis of occupant injury severity in winter weather crashes: A fully Bayesian multivariate approach

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2016, Pages 33-47

  Shaheed, Mohammad Saad ^a   Gkritza, Konstantina ^b   Carriquiry, Alicia L ^c   Hallmark, Shauna L ^d  

^a Arizona Department of Transportation   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaggregate crash data; Full Bayesian (FB) estimation; Hierarchical analysis; Multivariate discrete data modeling; Multivariate error term correlation; Occupant injury severity; Winter weather

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; ERRORS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; VEHICLES;

BAYESIAN; CRASH DATA; DISCRETE DATA; ERROR TERMS; HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS; OCCUPANT INJURY SEVERITIES;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978165552     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2016.06.002     Document Type: Article

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