Assuring finite moments for willingness to pay in random coefficient models

Transportation

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-31

  Daly, Andrew ^a,b   Hess, Stephane ^b   Train, Kenneth ^c  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete choice; Mixed logit; Random coefficients; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

COST COEFFICIENTS; DISCRETE CHOICE; FINITE MOMENTS; MIXED LOGIT; RANDOM COEFFICIENTS; SIMULATION APPROACH; TRUNCATED NORMAL; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION;

COSTS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 81955168122     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-011-9331-3     Document Type: Article

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