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Cellular telephones and motor‐vehicle collisions: Some variations on matched‐pairs analysis
Author(s) -
Tibshirani Robert,
Redelmeier Donald A.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
canadian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1708-945X
pISSN - 0319-5724
DOI - 10.2307/3315349
Subject(s) - intermittency , confounding , statistics , computer science , econometrics , psychology , mathematics , physics , turbulence , thermodynamics
We describe the analysis of some matched‐pair binary data arising from a study designed to investigate whether cellular‐telephone use is associated with motor‐vehicle collisions. Conditional and random effects approaches to the problem are derived and compared. Driving intermittency is a potential confounder whose effect is assessed by strategic choices of the control period and by application of the bootstrap. The marked discrepancy between the conditional and random approaches merits further study.