title: Quasi-induced exposure revisited.
abstract: Considerable attention is still given to developing and using alternate methods for determining exposure for calculating highway accident rates. A quasi-induced method of measuring exposure developed in the late 1960s is reexamined and found to be promising for determining relative accident involvement rates. A new empirical investigation is offered as the first step in verifying that the characteristics of the "innocent victim" in two-vehicle highway accidents represent a random sample of the driver-vehicle combinations present on the highway system under specified conditions. Quasi-induced exposure estimates are shown to be, at a minimum, consistent and reproducible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1226.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Lyles
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stamatiadis
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Lighthizer
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D008875:Middle Aged