REGRESSION AND CORRELATION METHODS IN HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS

REGRESSION AND CORRELATION ANALSIS IS EXPLAINED WITH A MINIMUM OF THEORY, AND ITS USE IS ILLUSTRATED IN A SIMPLE LINEAR BIVARIATE EXAMPLE. A REGRESSION RELATIONSHIP IS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE EXPENDITURES AND GASOLINE CONSUMPTION. A COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION IS DETERMINED AND TESTED FOR SIGNIFICANCE. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ARE ESTABLISHED FOR THE REGRESSION CURVE. THE APPLICATION OF REGRESSIONING CORRELATION FOR VARIOUS HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE FUNCTIONS IS DISCUSSED, AND THE MERITS OF THE TECHNIQUE ARE EMPHASIZED. /AUTHOR/

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  • Sponsored by Committee on Maintenance and Operations Costs and presented at the 48th Annual Meeting. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Butler Jr, Bertell C
• Publication Date: 1971

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 26-36
• Monograph Title: Maintenance operations and applied systems engineering
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 359
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Correlation analysis; Highway maintenance; Regression analysis
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00218867
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309019753
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 7 1972 12:00AM