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Comparison of the binary logistic and skewed logistic (Scobit) models of injury severity in motor vehicle collisions
1School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Abstract:
The binary logistic model has been extensively used to analyze traffic collision and injury data where the outcome of interest has two categories. However, the assumption of a symmetric distribution may not be a desirable property in some cases, especially when there is a significant imbalance in the two categories of outcome. This study compares the standard binary logistic model with the skewed logistic model in two cases in which the symmetry assumption is violated in one but not the other case. The differences in the estimates, and thus the marginal effects obtained, are significant when the assumption of symmetry is violated.
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