Models for Temporal Patterns of Deer-vehicle Collisions in Bavaria, Germany

This software analyses two time series of 341,655 DVCs involving roe deer and 854,659 non-deer-related accidents (non-DVCs) documented between 2002 and 2011 in Bavaria, Germany.  Nonparametric smoothing and temporal parametric modelling are used to estimate annual, seasonal, weekly and diurnal patterns in DVCs, non-DVCs and adjusted DVCs. The models disentangle the relative role of human-related and deer-related processes contributing to the overall temporal DVC pattern.