About attitudes and perceptions: finding the proper way to consider latent variables in discrete choice models

Transportation

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 475-493

  Bahamonde Birke, Francisco J ^a,b   Kunert, Uwe ^a   Link, Heike ^a   Ortúzar, Juan de Dios ^c  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Hybrid discrete choice modelling; Latent variables; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

SENSORY PERCEPTION; TRANSPORTATION;

ATTITUDES; ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DISCRETE CHOICE; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; LATENT VARIABLE; MAKING PROCESS; PERSONALITY TRAITS;

DECISION MAKING;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; MODELING; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84947749246     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-015-9663-5     Document Type: Article

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