Analyzing car ownership in Quebec City: a comparison of traditional and latent class ordered and unordered models

Transportation

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1013-1039

  Anowar, Sabreena ^a   Yasmin, Shamsunnahar ^a   Eluru, Naveen ^a   Miranda Moreno, Luis F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Car ownership in the Canadian context; Latent class models; Latent multinomial logit; Latent ordered logit

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CAR OWNERSHIP; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LATENT CLASS MODEL; METROPOLITAN REGIONS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; ORDERED LOGIT; ORDERED RESPONSE MODELS; POTENTIAL POPULATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84920254616     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-014-9522-9     Document Type: Article

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