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Citation

Kim S, Chen Z, Zhang Z, Simons-Morton BG, Albert PS. J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 2013; 108(502): 494-503.

Affiliation

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, MD 20852.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American Statistical Association)

DOI

10.1080/01621459.2013.770702

PMID

24076760

PMCID

PMC3783969

Abstract

Although there is evidence that teenagers are at a high risk of crashes in the early months after licensure, the driving behavior of these teenagers is not well understood. The Naturalistic Teenage Driving Study (NTDS) is the first U.S. study to document continuous driving performance of newly-licensed teenagers during their first 18 months of licensure. Counts of kinematic events such as the number of rapid accelerations are available for each trip, and their incidence rates represent different aspects of driving behavior. We propose a hierarchical Poisson regression model incorporating over-dispersion, heterogeneity, and serial correlation as well as a semiparametric mean structure. Analysis of the NTDS data is carried out with a hierarchical Bayesian framework using reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms to accommodate the flexible mean structure. We show that driving with a passenger and night driving decrease kinematic events, while having risky friends increases these events. Further the within-subject variation in these events is comparable to the between-subject variation. This methodology will be useful for other intensively collected longitudinal count data, where event rates are low and interest focuses on estimating the mean and variance structure of the process. This article has online supplementary materials.


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