Easy and flexible mixture distributions

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 206-210

  Fosgerau, Mogens ^a,b   Mabit, Stefan L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Centre for Transport Studies   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Maximum simulated likelihood; Mixed logit; Mixture distributions; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877883348     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.050     Document Type: Article

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