Estimation of choice-based models using sales data from a single firm

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 184-197

  Newman, Jeffrey P ^a   Ferguson, Mark E ^b   Garrow, Laurie A ^a   Jacobs, Timothy L ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c US Airways   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored alternatives; Choice based revenue management; Discrete choice modeling; Sampling of alternatives

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CENSORED ALTERNATIVES; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; LOG-LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; REVENUE MANAGEMENT;

COSTS;

EID: 84901762718     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.2014.0475     Document Type: Article

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