The mixed logit model: The state of practice

Transportation

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-176

  Hensher, David A ^a   Greene, William H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical distributions; Mixed logit; Model specification; Random parameters

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HIGH QUALITY DATA;

TRANSPORTATION;

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODELING; PLANNING METHOD; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 0037402362     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022558715350     Document Type: Article

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