Traffic Safety and the DriverExamines deaths, injuries, and property damage from traffic crashes. Evans (research scientist, General Motors Research Labs, Warren, Michigan) applies the methods of science to illuminate the characteristics of these problems--their origin and nature as well as their severity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... expected to produce a similar percent reduction in fatalities in a nation of one million as in a larger nation providing 1 sufficient data to estimate the percent reduction . Damask [ INTRODUCTION / The Importance of Traffic Safety /
... expected to produce a similar percent reduction in fatalities in a nation of one million as in a larger nation providing 1 sufficient data to estimate the percent reduction . Damask [ INTRODUCTION / The Importance of Traffic Safety /
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... expected to be closely replicated under all conditions . They are values which were observed in one study [ Malliaris , Hitchcock , and Hedlund 1982 ] and are presented to indicate more clearly how life - threatening potential increases ...
... expected to be closely replicated under all conditions . They are values which were observed in one study [ Malliaris , Hitchcock , and Hedlund 1982 ] and are presented to indicate more clearly how life - threatening potential increases ...
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... expected to be crash free , 27.07 % to have one crash , 27.07 % to have two , 18.04 % to have three , 9.02 % to have four , 3.61 % to have five , and 1.66 % to have more than five . Note that the most likely values are close to the ...
... expected to be crash free , 27.07 % to have one crash , 27.07 % to have two , 18.04 % to have three , 9.02 % to have four , 3.61 % to have five , and 1.66 % to have more than five . Note that the most likely values are close to the ...
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... expected to minimize cost , but with some uncertainty . If both new paints cost 10 % more than A , then the results indicate clearly that the statistically significantly better C is almost certainly the most costly choice , while B is ...
... expected to minimize cost , but with some uncertainty . If both new paints cost 10 % more than A , then the results indicate clearly that the statistically significantly better C is almost certainly the most costly choice , while B is ...
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... expected . Another reason for emphasizing these variables is that they tend to be the only demographic variables available , as Haight [ 1985 ] has remarked . The first ques- tion we address is a basic one which is not confined to ...
... expected . Another reason for emphasizing these variables is that they tend to be the only demographic variables available , as Haight [ 1985 ] has remarked . The first ques- tion we address is a basic one which is not confined to ...
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