Empirical Bayes estimates of finite mixture of negative binomial regression models and its application to highway safety

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 1652-1669

  Zou, Yajie ^a   Ash, John E ^b   Park, Byung Jung ^c   Lord, Dominique ^d   Wu, Lingtao ^e  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

empirical Bayes method; Finite mixture model; hotspot identification; negative binomial; varying weight parameters; vehicle crash data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032035436     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2017.1389863     Document Type: Article

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