The use of heuristic optimization algorithms to facilitate maximum simulated likelihood estimation of random parameter logit models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 997-1013

  Hole, Arne Risa ^a   Yoo, Hong Il ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential evolution; Generalized multinomial logit; Mixed logit; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020945952     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12209     Document Type: Article

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