Crash data modeling with a generalized estimator

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 117, Issue , 2018, Pages 340-345

  Ye, Zhirui ^a   Xu, Yueru ^a   Lord, Dominique ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash data analysis; Generalized event count model; Under Dispersed data

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COUNT MODELS; DEGREES OF DISPERSIONS; HIGHWAY CROSSINGS; MODELING PROCESS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; REGRESSION MODEL; UNDER-DISPERSED DATA;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

HUMAN; ONTARIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAILWAY; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ONTARIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAILROADS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 85047196083     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.04.026     Document Type: Article

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