The effect of variations in spatial units on unobserved heterogeneity in macroscopic crash models

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 13, Issue , 2017, Pages 28-51

  Amoh Gyimah, Richard ^a   Saberi, Meead ^a   Sarvi, Majid ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Macro level crash prediction model; Random parameter negative binomial model; Semi parametric geographically weighted Poisson regression; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS;

ADVANCED MODELING TECHNIQUES; BAYESIAN NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE; CRASH PREDICTION; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; POISSON REGRESSION; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85009999743     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2016.11.001     Document Type: Article

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