Are accidents poisson distributed? A sta
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Alan Nicholson; Yiik-Diew Wong
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The common and convenient assumption in accident count analysis, that accidents are Poisson-distributed, is reexamined. Two statistical tests, for evaluating the assumption are described and compared. It is shown that a test based upon a combinatorial analysis is much more accurate than the alternat