AbstractIn accident reconstruction, individual road accidents are treated as essentially deterministic events, although incomplete information can leave one uncertain about how exactly an accident happened. In statistical studies, on the other hand, accidents are treated as individually random, although the parameters governing their probability distributions may be modeled deterministically. Here, a simple deterministic model of a vehicle/pedestrian encounter is used to illustrate how naı̈vely applying statistical methods to aggregated data could lead to an ecological fallacy and to Simpson’s paradox. It is suggested that these problems occur because the statistical regularities observed in accident data have no independent status, but are simply the result of aggregating particular types and frequencies of mechanisms.


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    Titel :

    Possible aggregation biases in road safety research and a mechanism approach to accident modeling


    Beteiligte:
    Davis, Gary A. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2004-04-26


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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