Assessing user benefits with discrete choice models: Implications of specification errors under random taste heterogeneity

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1926, 2005, Pages 61-69

  Cherchi, Elisabetta ^a,b   Polak, John W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

MODEL ESTIMATION; TASTE HETEROGENEITY; TRANSPORT POLICY;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 33645791921     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1926-08     Document Type: Conference Paper

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