Comparison of Statistical and Machine-Learning Models on Road Traffic Accident Severity Classification

Portugal has the sixth highest road fatality rate among European Union members. This is a problem of different dimensions with serious consequences in people’s lives. study analyses daily data from police and government authorities on traffic accidents that occurred between 2016 2019 district Portugal. paper looks for determinants contribute to existence victims accidents, as well fatalities and/or injuries victims. We use logistic regression models, results are compared machine-learning model results. For severity model, where response variable indicates whether only property damage or casualties resulted accident, we used large sample small imbalance. not there were accident victims, very imbalanced data. Empirical analysis supports conclusion that, data, models generally do perform better than statistical models; however, they similarly when