The usefulness of Bayesian optimal designs for discrete choice experiments

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 173-188

  Kessels, Roselinde ^a   Jones, Bradley ^b   Goos, Peter ^a,c   Vandebroek, Martina ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bayesian design; choice experiments; D optimality; orthogonal design; stated choice data; utility neutral or linear design

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN DESIGN; CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; D-OPTIMALITY; LINEAR DESIGN; ORTHOGONAL DESIGN; STATED CHOICE;

EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 79959981982     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.906     Document Type: Article

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