Assessment of Athens's metro passenger behaviour via a multiranked probit model

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-200

  Linardakis, Michalis ^a   Dellaportas, Petros ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conjoint responses; Discrete choice models; Latent variables; Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling; Multivariate probit model; Random effects; Scale mixture of multivariate normal links; Utility threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141684910     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00397     Document Type: Review

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