Abstract #300540

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300540
Activity Number: 341
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 9:00 AM to 10:50 AM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #300540
Title: Multivariate Analysis of Vehicle Safety
Author(s): Ila Cobbs*+ and Mary Cunningham and Cheryl Gerde and Lindsay Kellam and Vasant B. Waikar
Companies: SUMSRI and Miami University and Miami University and Miami University and Miami University of Ohio
Address: 123 Bachelor Hall, Oxford, OH, 45056,
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Abstract:

Vehicle safety affects our lives daily. To measure safety, we took a large sample of popular vehicles and set out to create a vehicle safety rating system. To do this, we used two multivariate techniques, Principal Components Analysis and Discriminant Analysis. Principal Components Analysis reduced our set of variables to a smaller set of principal components. We then used Discriminant Analysis to classify vehicles by safety rating using these principal components scores.

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