A comprehensive joint econometric model of motor vehicle crashes arising from multiple sources of risk

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 18, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-14

  Afghari, Amir Pooyan ^a   Washington, Simon ^a   Haque, Md Mazharul ^b   Li, Zili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crash causation mechanism; Data generating process; Instrumental variable; Joint model; Random parameters model; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROAD AND STREET MARKINGS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

CRASH CAUSATIONS; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; JOINT MODELING; RANDOM PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85049315263     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2018.03.002     Document Type: Article

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