A Maximum Entropy Approach to Recovering Information from Multinomial Response Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 434, 1996, Pages 841-853

  Ggolan, Amos ^a   Judge, George ^a   Perloff, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice based sampling process; Discrete choice models; Generalized maximum entropy; Maximum entropy principle; Maximum likelihood logit; Nonlinear inversion procedure; Unordered multinomial process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030549055     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476952     Document Type: Article

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