A random thresholds random parameters hierarchical ordered probit analysis of highway accident injury-severities

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 15, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-16

  Fountas, Grigorios ^a   Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident injury severities; Hierarchical ordered probit; Random parameters; Random thresholds

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; FORECASTING ACCURACY; GOODNESS-OF-FIT MEASURE; INJURY SEVERITY; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; ORDERED PROBIT; RANDOM PARAMETERS; RANDOM THRESHOLD;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 85018789433     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2017.03.002     Document Type: Article

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