Earlier mathematical work on accident proneness is reviewed and attention drawn to the danger of assuming that a Poisson distribution shows the absence of accident proneness while a negative binomial shows accident proneness. The results of the average time interval model are outlined.
In: Symposium on the Use of Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Road Accidents, held at the Road Research Laboratory (RRL), April 14-16, 1969, published by OECD, Paris, 1970, p. 67-76
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