Analysis of vehicle accident-injury severities: A comparison of segment- versus accident-based latent class ordered probit models with class-probability functions

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 18, Issue , 2018, Pages 15-32

  Fountas, Grigorios ^a   Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^b   Mannering, Fred L ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b University at Buffalo The State University of New York   (United States)

^c University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident injury severity; Accident based approach; Class probability function; Grouped effects; Latent class ordered probit model; Segment based approach

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; VEHICLES;

CLASS PROBABILITIES; GROUPED EFFECTS; INJURY SEVERITY; ORDERED PROBIT MODEL; SEGMENT-BASED;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 85045694488     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2018.03.003     Document Type: Article

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