Keywords and phrases: road accidents, risk factors, negative binomial regression model, R-software.
Received: February 13, 2021; Accepted: March 13, 2021; Published: March 22, 2021
How to cite this article: Khushbakht Khan, Muhammad Riaz Ahmad, Mohammed Albassam and Muhammad Aslam, A statistical study on safety factors to reduce the road accidents, Advances and Applications in Statistics 68(1) (2021), 93-109. DOI: 10.17654/AS068010093
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