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Table 12 Importance of variables included in the CART and MARS model

From: Social, economic, and legislative factors and global road traffic fatalities

Variable

Importance in CART

Importance in MARS

2013

2016

2013

2016

Education

21

21

100

100

Income

19

18

19.6

10.6

Life expectancy

17

17

38.7

15

Safer vehicles

14

13

5

unused

Happiness

12

5

unused

38.5

Homicide

10

12

unused

unused

Urban population

3

2

16.5

unused

Unemployment

2

1

unused

unused

GINI index

1

unused

unused

19.5

Safer road users

unused

11

unused

unused

Safer roads and mobility

unused

unused

unused

unused

  1. CART Classification and regression trees, MARS Multivariate adaptive regression splines