Making use of respondent reported processing information to understand attribute importance: A latent variable scaling approach

Transportation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 397-412

  Hess, Stephane ^a   Hensher, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attribute ignoring; Attribute importance; Attribute relevance; Information processing; Non attendance; Stated choice

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; DATA PROCESSING; TRANSPORTATION;

ATTRIBUTE IGNORING; ATTRIBUTE IMPORTANCE; ATTRIBUTE RELEVANCE; NON-ATTENDANCE; STATED CHOICE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; HEURISTICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; PROBABILITY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84874110755     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-012-9420-y     Document Type: Article

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