Development and estimation of a semi-compensatory model with a flexible error structure

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-304

  Kaplan, Sigal ^a   Shiftan, Yoram ^b   Bekhor, Shlomo ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Error components logit; Flexible error structure; Random coefficients logit; Semi compensatory models; Two stage models

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; TRANSPORTATION;

DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; ERROR COMPONENTS; ERROR STRUCTURES; INDEPENDENTLY AND IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED; RANDOM COEFFICIENTS; STRUCTURAL FLEXIBILITIES; SUBSTITUTION PATTERNS; TWO STAGE MODEL;

ERRORS;

COMPLEXITY; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; LOGIT ANALYSIS; STUDENT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856366289     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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