Analysis of Severe Injury Accident Rates on Interstate Highways Using a Random Parameter Tobit Model

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volumn 2017, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Park, Minho ^a   Lee, Dongmin ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology   (South Korea)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT FREQUENCY; CONTINUOUS DATA; INJURY ACCIDENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; RANDOM PARAMETERS; TOBIT REGRESSION; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY; WASHINGTON STATE;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85013339858     PISSN: 1024123X     EISSN: 15635147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2017/7273630     Document Type: Article

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