Analysis of accident injury-severity outcomes: The zero-inflated hierarchical ordered probit model with correlated disturbances

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 20, Issue , 2018, Pages 30-45

  Fountas, Grigorios ^a   Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis Ch ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Accident injury severities; Correlated disturbances; Injury severity states; Threshold decomposition; Zero inflated hierarchical ordered probit

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; CORRELATED DISTURBANCES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; INJURY SEVERITY; ORDERED PROBIT; PROBABILITY THRESHOLD; THRESHOLD DECOMPOSITION;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 85054162498     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2018.09.002     Document Type: Article

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