Data quality, including record inaccuracy and missingness (incompletely recorded crashes and crash underreporting), has always been of concern in crash data analysis. Limited efforts have been made to handle some specific aspects of crash data quality problems, such as using weights in estimation to take care of unreported crash data and applying multiple imputation (MI) to fill in missing information of drivers’ status of attention before crashes. Yet, there lacks a general investigation of the performance of different statistical methods to handle missing crash data. This paper is intended to explore and evaluate the performance of three missing data treatments, which are complete-case analysis (CC), inverse probability weighting (IPW) and MI, in crash severity modeling using the ordered probit model. CC discards those crash records with missing information on any of the variables; IPW includes weights in estimation to adjust for bias, using complete records’ probability of being a complete case; and MI imputes the missing values based on the conditional distribution of the variable with missing information on the observed data. Those missing data treatments provide varying performance in model estimations. Based on analysis of both simulated and real crash data, this paper suggests that the choice of an appropriate missing data treatment should be based on sample size and data missing rate. Meanwhile, it is recommended that MI is used for incompletely recorded crash data and IPW for unreported crashes, before applying crash severity models on crash data.


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    Title :

    Performance Evaluation of Various Missing Data Treatments in Crash Severity Modeling


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record


    Contributors:
    Ye, Fan (author) / Wang, Yong (author)


    Publication date :

    2018-09-09




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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