Collisions between bicycles and motor vehicles have caused severe life and property losses in many countries. The majority of bicycle-motor vehicle (BMV) accidents occur at intersections. In order to reduce the number of BMV accidents at intersections, a substantial understanding of the causal factors for the collisions is required. In this study, intersection BMV accidents were classified into...

Abstract The risk of maternal death in developing countries is projected to be one 61, while for developed it estimated 2800. Antenatal care a protective obstetric health system aimed at improving the outcome pregnant fetus by routine pregnancy monitoring. One most important functions antenatal offer information and services that can significantly improve women their infants. 6450 from Ethiopia...

The generalized additive model is extended to handle negative binomial responses. The extension is complicated by the fact that the negative binomial distribution has two parameters and is not in the exponential family. The methodology is applied to data involving DNA adduct counts and smoking variables among ex-smokers with lung cancer. A more detailed investigation is made of the parametric r...

The cross-border movement of capital has suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic since December 2019. Nevertheless, it is unrealistic for multinational companies withdraw giant global value chains (GVCs) overnight because pandemic. Instead, active discussions and achievements deals in mergers acquisitions (M&As) are expected post-COVID-19 era among various other market entry modes, considerin...

In regression analysis of counts, a lack of simple and efficient algorithms for posterior computation has made Bayesian approaches appear unattractive and thus underdeveloped. We propose a lognormal and gamma mixed negative binomial (NB) regression model for counts, and present efficient closed-form Bayesian inference; unlike conventional Poisson models, the proposed approach has two free param...

BACKGROUND Sample size calculations should correspond to the intended method of analysis. Nevertheless, for non-normal distributions, they are often done on the basis of normal approximations, even when the data are to be analysed using generalized linear models (GLMs). METHODS For the case of comparison of two means, we use GLM theory to derive sample size formulae, with particular cases bei...

Motor vehicle crash data were extracted from the Florida Department of Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety dataset for 40 intersections within Miami-Dade County, Florida for development of an accident prediction model. Each intersection was matched at least one of 20 red light camera (RLC) sites using selected geometric variables. In addition, each intersection examined was at least 2 miles away f...