Contributory fault and level of personal injury to drivers involved in head-on collisions: Application of copula-based bivariate ordinal models

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 110, Issue , 2018, Pages 101-114

  Wali, Behram ^a   Khattak, Asad J ^a   Xu, Jingjing ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bivariate ordinal models; Copula; Fault status; Head on collisions; Injury severity; Normal mixture marginals; Vehicle speed

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MIXTURES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEED; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

COPULA; HEAD-ON COLLISION; INJURY SEVERITY; MARGINALS; ORDINAL MODELS; VEHICLE SPEED;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CAR DRIVING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; PROBABILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIRGINIA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; PROBABILITY; RISK-TAKING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIRGINIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 85032978879     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.10.018     Document Type: Article

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