highway: Highway accidents

Description Format Source References Examples

Description

The data comes from a unpublished master's paper by Carl Hoffstedt. They relate the automobile accident rate, in accidents per million vehicle miles to several potential terms. The data include 39 sections of large highways in the state of Minnesota in 1973. The goal of this analysis was to understand the impact of design variables, Acpts, Slim, Sig, and Shld that are under the control of the highway department, on accidents.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

ADT

average daily traffic count in thousands

Trks

truck volume as a percent of the total volume

Lane

total number of lanes of traffic

Acpt

number of access points per mile

Sigs

number of signalized interchanges per mile

Itg

number of freeway-type interchanges per mile

Slim

speed limit in 1973

Len

length of the highway segment in miles

Lwid

lane width, in feet

Shld

width in feet of outer shoulder on the roadway

Hwy

An indicator of the type of roadway or the source of funding for the road; 0 if MC, 1 if FAI, 2 if PA, 3 if MA

Rate

1973 accident rate per million vehicle miles

Source

Carl Hoffstedt

References

Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Section 7.2.

Examples

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Example output

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  ADT Trks Lane Acpt Sigs  Itg Slim   Len Lwid Shld Hwy Rate
1  69    8    8  4.6 0.00 1.20   55  4.99   12   10   1 4.58
2  73    8    4  4.4 0.00 1.43   60 16.11   12   10   1 2.86
3  49   10    4  4.7 0.00 1.54   60  9.75   12   10   1 3.02
4  61   13    6  3.8 0.00 0.94   65 10.65   12   10   1 2.29
5  28   12    4  2.2 0.00 0.65   70 20.01   12   10   1 1.61
6  30    6    4 24.8 1.84 0.34   55  5.97   12   10   2 6.87

alr3 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:20 p.m.

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