Novelty helmet use and motorcycle rider fatality
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Helmet laws and motorcycle rider death rates.
We investigated motorcycle rider death rates between states with full motorcycle helmet laws and those without. This was done using both unadjusted bivariate analyses and multivariate random-effects generalized least squares regression models of rider death rates. Multivariate models were adjusted for the competing influences of several explanatory variables, including the existence of a motorc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Accident Analysis & Prevention
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0001-4575
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2017.04.002