Incorporating pro-environmental preferences towards green automobile technologies through a Bayesian hybrid choice model

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-106

  Daziano, Ricardo A ^a,b   Bolduc, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

discrete choice; Gibbs sampling; hybrid choice model; latent variables; pro environmental preferences

Indexed keywords

CHOICE MODEL; DISCRETE CHOICE; GIBBS SAMPLING; LATENT VARIABLE; PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84876014774     PISSN: 23249935     EISSN: 23249943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18128602.2010.524173     Document Type: Article

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