Testing the sequential logit model against the nested logit model

Japanese Economic Review

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-361

  Nagakura, Daisuke ^a   Kobayashi, Masahito ^b  

^a Bank of Japan ^*  (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING;

EID: 69149094235     PISSN: 13524739     EISSN: 14685876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2008.00458.x     Document Type: Article

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