Whitfield, R. A., "Hiding the Fatal Motor Vehicle Crash Record," Contribution to The Risks Digest, February 16, 2025, Volume 34, Issue 56.

Whitfield, R. A., "NHTSA's Implausible Safety Claim for Tesla's Autosteer Driver Assistance System," Contribution to The Risks Digest, February 26, 2019, Volume 31, Issue 8. See also coverage by The Los Angeles Times and Ars Technica

Whitfield, R. A., and Alice K. Whitfield, "Quantifying Tire-related Deaths and Injuries in U.S. Motor Vehicles," Invited Presentation to the National Transportation Safety Board for its Passenger Vehicle Tire Safety Symposium, December 9, 2014. (This is the expanded version of the original remarks, 4.6MB.)

Whitfield, R. A., "What NHTSA's Data Can Tell Us about Unintended Acceleration and Electronic Throttle Control Systems," Invited Presentation to the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies for its Study of Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration, October 11, 2010.

Whitfield, R. A., and Alice K. Whitfield, "Improving Surveillance for Injuries Associated with Potential Motor Vehicle Safety Defects," Injury Prevention, April 2004, 10:88-92.

Whitfield, R. A., and Alice K. Whitfield, "Re: Unwarranted Assumptions about FARS Data," InjuryPrevention.com, 2004.

Jones, I. S., L. A. Wilson, and R. A. Whitfield, "Emergency Steering in Fatal and Serious Injury, Sport Utility Vehicle Rollover Crashes," Transactions of the Conference on Vehicle Safety 2000. Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, June 2000.

Braver, E. R., R. A. Whitfield, and Susan A. Ferguson, "Seating Positions and Children's Risk of Dying in Motor Vehicle Crashes," Injury Prevention, 1998, 4:181-187.

Braver, E. R., R. A. Whitfield, and Susan A. Ferguson, "Risk of Death among Child Passengers in Front and Rear Seating Positions," Presentation to the 41st Annual Stapp Car Crash Conference, Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Paper Series 973298, 1997.

Whitfield, R. A., and I. S. Jones, "The Effect of Passenger Load on Unstable Vehicles in Fatal, Untripped Rollover Crashes," American Journal of Public Health, 1995, 85:1268-1271.

Whitfield, Alice K., R. A. Whitfield, and Judith Gurney, "Challenging Computer ‘Evidence.’" New Jersey Law Journal, 21 March 1991, p. 74pf, (127 N.J.L.J. 799).

Whitfield, Alice K., Judith Gurney, and R. A. Whitfield, "Databases Can Be Riddled with Errors," Legal Times, 11 February 1991, 13(37)21pf.

Whitfield, R. A., "Structured Test Design for Data Quality Control," Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, pp. 973-975. SAS Institute, Inc., 1989.

Whitfield, R. A., "Maintaining Quality Control Over Input Data," Proceedings of the Tenth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, pp. 431-433. SAS Institute, Inc., 1985.

Jones, I. S., and R. A. Whitfield, "Predicting Injury Risk with ‘New Car Assessment Program’ Crashworthiness Ratings," Accident Analysis and Prevention, 1988, 20:411-419.

Fife, D., and R. A. Whitfield, "Historical Changes in Motor Vehicle Death Rates among the Elderly," Accident Analysis and Prevention, 1988, 20:393-398.

Baker, S. P., R. A. Whitfield, and B. O'Neill, "County Mapping of Injury Mortality," The Journal of Trauma, June 1988, 28:741-745.

Whitfield, R. A. and D. Fife, "Changing Patterns in Motor Vehicle Mortality, 1940-1980," Accident Analysis and Prevention, August 1987, 19:261-27

Baker, S. P., R. A. Whitfield, and B. O'Neill, "Geographic Variations in Mortality from Motor Vehicle Crashes," The New England Journal of Medicine, 28 May 1987, 316:1384-1387. See also Scientific American, August 1987, 257:28-30.

Whitfield, R. A., P. Zador, and D. Fife, "Projected Mortality from Injuries," Accident Analysis and Prevention, October 1985, 17:367-371.

Jones, I. S., R. A. Whitfield, and D. M. Carroll, "New Car Assessment Program Results and the Risk of Injury in Actual Accidents," Proceedings of the 10th International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C., 1985.

Jones, I. S., and R. A. Whitfield, "The Effects of Restraint Use and Mass in ‘Downsized’ Cars," Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Paper Series 840199, 1984.

Whitfield, R. A., "A Nutritional Analysis of the Food Stamp Program," American Journal of Public Health, 1982, 72:793-799.

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