Since 1964 the California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued several monographs on driver characteristics and accident risk factors as part of a series of analyses known as the California driver record study. A number of regression analyses were conducted of driving record variables measured over a 6-year time period (1986 to 1991). The techniques presented consist of ordinary least squares, weighted least squares, Poisson, negative binomial, linear probability, and logistic regression models. The objective of the analyses was to compare the results obtained from several different regression techniques under consideration for use in the in-progress California driver record study. The results are informative in determining whether the various regression methods produce similar results for different sample sizes and in exploring whether reliance on ordinary least squares techniques in past California driver record study analyses has produced biased significance levels and parameter estimates. The results indicate that, for these data, the use of the different regression techniques do not lead to any greater increase in individual accident prediction beyond that obtained through application of ordinary least squares regression. The methods produce almost identical results in terms of the relative importance and statistical significance of the independent variables. It therefore appears safe to employ ordinary least squares multiple regression techniques on driver accident count distributions of the type represented by California driver records, at least when the sample sizes are large.


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    Title :

    Exploratory Multivariable Analyses of California Driver Record Accident Rates


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1998-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English