Capturing flexible heterogeneous utility curves: A Bayesian spline approach

Management Science

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 340-354

  Kim, Jin Gyo ^a   Menzefricke, Ulrich ^b   Feinberg, Fred M ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Choice models; Heterogeneity; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Splines; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN METHODS; CHOICE MODELS; HETEROGENEITY; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; UTILITY THEORY;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIFICATIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33847280334     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0616     Document Type: Article

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