Driver injury severity outcome analysis in rural interstate highway crashes: a two-level Bayesian logistic regression interpretation

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 97, Issue , 2016, Pages 69-78

  Chen, Cong ^a   Zhang, Guohui ^a   Liu, Xiaoyue Cathy ^b   Ci, Yusheng ^c   Huang, Helai ^d   Ma, Jianming ^e   Chen, Yanyan ^f   Guan, Hongzhi ^f  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Traffic Operations Division   (United States)

^f BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Driver injury severity; Hierarchical model; Rural interstate highway; Traffic crash

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CRASHWORTHINESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; INFERENCE ENGINES; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DRIVER INJURY SEVERITIES; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; RURAL INTERSTATES; TRAFFIC CRASHES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CAR DRIVING; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SEATBELT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UTILIZATION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; SEAT BELTS;

EID: 84984683760     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2016.07.031     Document Type: Article

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