Exploring spatio-temporal effects in traffic crash trend analysis

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2017, Pages 104-116

  Liu, Chenhui ^a,b   Sharma, Anuj ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Conditional autoregressive; Integrated nested Laplace approximation; Spatio temporal modeling; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

BAYESIAN; CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE; LAPLACE APPROXIMATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 85031725057     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2017.09.002     Document Type: Article

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