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... APPENDICES 132 Appendix B: Glossary This chapter defines the terms used in the Highway Safety Manual User Guide. Empirical Bayes Method: Method in which the evidence about the true state of the world is expressed in terms of degrees of belief (Bayesian probabilities)
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... APPENDICES 133 Predictive Method: This term refers to the HSM Part C methodology used to estimate the long-term average crash frequency of a site or network under given geometric design and traffic volumes for a specific number of years. The result from the predictive method is the expected crash frequency.

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