A statistical assessment of temporal instability in the factors determining motorcyclist injury severities

Analytic Methods in Accident Research

Volumn 22, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Alnawmasi, Nawaf ^a   Mannering, Fred ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity in means and variances; Motorcyclist injury severity; Random parameters logit model; Temporal instability; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROADS AND STREETS; STABILITY;

HETEROGENEITY IN MEANS AND VARIANCES; INJURY SEVERITY; RANDOM PARAMETERS LOGIT; TEMPORAL INSTABILITY; UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY;

MOTORCYCLES;

EID: 85064234017     PISSN: 22136657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amar.2019.100090     Document Type: Article

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