A Markov chain approximation to choice modeling

Operations Research

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 886-905

  Blanchet, Jose ^a   Gallego, Guillermo ^b   Goyal, Vineet ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Assortment optimization; Choice modeling; Model selection

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; ERRORS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY;

ASSORTMENT OPTIMIZATION; CHOICE MODEL; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; MARKOV CHAIN APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM RELATIVE ERRORS; MODEL SELECTION; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; SIMULTANEOUS APPROXIMATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84982131405     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2016.1505     Document Type: Article

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