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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Choice set"”.
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Choice set formulation for discrete choice models
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1980.
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Probabilistic choice set generation in transportation demand models
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1984.
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Modelling choice set formation in discrete choice models
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989.
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The Effect of Choice Set Size and Other Choice Architectures on Decisions to Volunteer
… adds to the existing literature on the too-much-choice effect. The effect documents a range of negative consequences as a result of choosing from extensive choice sets, such as increased decision difficulty, increased deferment likelihood, and increased feelings of uncertainty, regret and …
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Essays on differential information economies
… A mechanism coalitionally implements a social choice set if any outcome of the social choice set can be achieved as a coalitional Bayesian Nash equilibrium of a mechanism and vice versa. We say that a social choice set is coalitionally implementable if there is a mechanism which coalitionally …
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When Comparison Becomes Contrast: Choice in an Oppositional Framework
… to the flattening of dimensions present in a choice set such that the items can be graphically depicted at two ends of one dimension (see Figure 2 and Figure 3). I will first explore the impact of a dichotomous mindset on making a decision and then expand to the realm of opposition in choice …
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More Choices or Help Choosing?: Experimental Evidence on Helping Firms Hire
… ways to help employers hire: (a) expand their choice set by attracting more applicants or (b) help them choose among that choice set. I report the results of an experiment where employers in a large online labor market were given hiring assista nce that could take either form, based on the …
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Using GPS data in route choice analysis : case study in Boston
… amount of data and the modeling of route choice behavior are two major challenges in the route choice analysis.This thesis discusses the general process in the route choice analysis, from GPS data processing, map matching to the generation of route choice sets. Besides, the Path-Size logit …
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Essays in decision making
… to reconcile with standard models of rational choice, and firm behavior difficult to reconcile with rational markets. In this paper I present a boundedly rational model of choice that reconciles several behavioral anomalies, and provides micro-foundational support for some puzzling empirical …
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The Effects of Using Multimedia Presentations and Modular Worked-out Examples as Instructional Methodologies to Manage the Cognitive Processing Associated with Information Literacy Instruction at the Graduate and Undergraduate Levels of Nursing Education
… as an essay-style question, and eleven multiple-choice questions. Experiment 2 built upon Experiment 1 through the addition of three questions measuring extraneous processing, generative processing and essential processing. Experiment 1 results indicated a large Cohen's effect size for the …
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Modeling preferences for innovative modes and services : a case study in Lisbon
… poses a challenge for the SP design. To simplify choice experiment, sequential approaches are used to divide the large choice set into car-based, public transport, and multimodal groups. Secondly, there is a large set of candidate variables that are likely to affect the mode choices. The findings …
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Asymmetric dominance effect in choice for others
When making choices the context of the offer influences how decision makers measure value. The asymmetric dominance effect is a theory of how choices change when a third and completely dominated decoy option is added to a two choice set, as a way for decision makers to simplify the decision. …
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Hysteresis and urban rail : the effects of past urban rail on current residential and travel choices
Cities are endowed with and accumulate assets based on their unique histories, which in turn define the choice set of the present. These assets range from the natural-sheltered ports, fertile land--to the constructed--concrete and cement, institutions and people. This dissertation examines the …
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Consumer Search and Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence From the United States Long-Distance Market
… also introduce a two-stage long distance carrier choice model that incorporates choice set restrictions based on costly search. I find that cross firm price elasticities for high volume consumers are 87% higher than for low volume consumers based on their lifetime search experience. In addition, …
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An application of behavioral decision theory to recreation site selection
… of past efforts to predict recreation choice behavior. Additionally, from this past research in recreation and in the fields of psychology and consumer behavior, a lexicographic semi-order model was selected and tested for applicability in approximating recreation site choices. Testinq …
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Optimal Reduced Size Choice Sets with Overlapping Attributes
Discrete choice experiments are used when choice alternatives can be described in terms of attributes. The objective is to infer the value that respondents attach to attribute levels. Respondents are presented sets of profiles based on attributes specified at certain levels and asked to select the …
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Essays on Economic Decision Making
… is assumed that the individual focuses on a subset of attributes that stand out from a choice set. The selective attributes model can accommodate violations of choice axioms of Independence from Irrelevant Alternative (IIA) and Regularity.
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A critical evaluation of information sources used in the tourist destination decision making process
… technology serve to amplify the tyranny of choice faced by tourist destination decision makers by providing greater information on the growing list of possible destinations, resulting in an ever more complex decision making process. The holiday destination decision is one which evoke high …
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Computational modelling of agent based path planning and the representation of human wayfinding behaviour within egress models
… a realistic representation of the actual route choices made by people in circulation/evacuation conditions. Wayfinding is a dynamic process and cannot be modelled as a static process by assigning pre-determined routes to the agents. Wayfinding is thus a very important aspect to be modelled …
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