Generation of synthetic datasets for discrete choice analysis

Transportation

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-202

  Garrow, Laurie A ^a   Bodea, Tudor D ^b   Lee, Misuk ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Intercontinental Hotels Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete choice; Multivariate Gumbel distribution; Nested logit; Synthetic data

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE METHOD; DATA GENERATION; DATA SETS; DISCRETE CHOICE; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ERROR COMPONENTS; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM; NESTED LOGIT; NESTED LOGIT MODEL; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SYNTHETIC DATA; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

DATA SET; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77950460954     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-009-9228-6     Document Type: Article

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