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UKDriverDeaths ()
¶Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
UKDriverDeaths
is a time series giving the monthly totals of car drivers in Great Britain killed
or seriously injured Jan 1969 to Dec 1984. Compulsory wearing of seat belts
was introduced on 31 Jan 1983.
Seatbelts
is more information on the same problem.
UKDriverDeaths
is a table with the following variables:
month
Month of the observation.
deaths
Number of deaths.
Seatbelts
is a table with the following variables:
month
Month of the observation.
DriversKilled
Car drivers killed.
drivers
Same as UKDriverDeaths
deaths
count.
front
Front-seat passengers killed or seriously injured.
rear
Rear-seat passengers killed or seriously injured.
kms
Distance driven.
PetrolPrice
Petrol price.
VanKilled
Number of van (“light goods vehicle”) drivers killed.
law
0/1: was the seatbelt law in effect that month?
Harvey, A.C. (1989). Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 519–523.
Durbin, J. and Koopman, S. J. (2001). Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.ssfpack.com/dkbook/
Harvey, A. C. and Durbin, J. (1986). The effects of seat belt legislation on British road casualties: A case study in structural time series modelling. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A, 149, 187–227.
octave.dataset.UKDriverDeaths; d = UKDriverDeaths; s = Seatbelts; # TODO: Port the model and plots to Octave