It's not that I don't care, I just don't care very much: Confounding between attribute non-attendance and taste heterogeneity

Transportation

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 583-607

  Hess, Stephane ^a   Stathopoulos, Amanda ^b   Campbell, Danny ^c   O'Neill, Vikki ^d   Caussade, Sebastian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e LAN Airlines   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attribute ignoring; Attribute non attendance; Choice modelling; Stated choice; Taste heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION;

ATTRIBUTE IGNORING; ATTRIBUTE NON-ATTENDANCE; CHOICE MODELLING; STATED CHOICE; TASTE HETEROGENEITIES;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

HETEROGENEITY; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODELING; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84876077568     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-012-9438-1     Document Type: Article

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