A new goodness-of-fit test for certain bivariate distributions applicable to traffic accidents |
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Authors: | Simos G Meintanis |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 8 Pesmazoglou Street, 105 59 Athens, Greece |
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Abstract: | T. Cacoullos and H. Papageorgiou On some bivariate probability models applicable to traffic accidents and fatalities, Int. Stat. Rev. 48 (1980) 345–356] studied a special class of bivariate discrete distributions appropriate for modeling traffic accidents, and fatalities resulting therefrom. The corresponding random variable may be written as , with , where , are independent copies of a (discrete) random variable , and is independent of , and follows a Poisson law. If follows a Poisson law (resp. Binomial law), the resulting distribution is termed Poisson–Poisson (resp. Poisson–Binomial). L2-type goodness-of-fit statistics are constructed for the ‘general distribution’ of this kind, where may be an arbitrary discrete nonnegative random variable. The test statistics utilize a simple characterization involving the corresponding probability generating function, and are shown to be consistent. The proposed procedures are shown to perform satisfactorily in simulated data, while their application to accident data leads to positive conclusions regarding the modeling ability of this class of bivariate distributions. |
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Keywords: | Empirical probability generating function Goodness-of-fit test Parametric bootstrap |
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