THE USE OF PREDICTION MODELS FOR ELIMINATING EFFECTS DUE TO REGRESSION-TO-THE-MEAN IN ROAD ACCIDENT DATA

In recent years, various methods have been proposed for estimating the true accident level, i.e. the expected number of accidents m when a total of x accidents have been named the Empirical Bayes Method (EB method). A description is given of a variant of the EB method utilizing prediction models for the number of accidents. Input data to the prediction models may consist, for example, of traffic flows in a junction. According to empirical comparisons of accidents in junctions, this variant of the EB method may be preferable in certain cases to the conventional ED method. However, it has not yet been determined how this variant of the EB method should generally take into account the precision of the prediction models. This means, for example, that in a nonexperimental before-and-after study of the effect of a particular action, varying results may be obtained according to the assumptions made concerning the precision of the prediction model.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Headington Hill Hall
  Oxford OX30BW,    
• Authors:
  • Brude, U
  • Larsson, Johan
• Publication Date: 1988-8

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 299-310
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; Data analysis; Forecasting; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Regression analysis; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00470847
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 473
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 31 1988 12:00AM