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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Discrete Choice Model"”.
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A discrete choice model of housing selection by low-income urban renters
… of this study was to (1) develop a statistical model that classifies the housing problems of affordability, quality and crowding as elements in a choice set facing low-income urban renters, (2) identify the demographic, socioeconomic and regional factors which influence housing outcomes, (3) use …
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Incorporating unobservable heterogeneity in discrete choice model : mode choice model for shopping trips
… for incorporating attitudinal data in a choice model to capture unobservable heterogeneity across the population. The key features of this approach are, 1) the concept of latent attitudes, and the assumption that 2) the respondent's answers to psychometric attitudinal questions relating …
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Assessing growth preferences on the rural-urban fringe using a discrete choice model and spatial analysis methods
… use and economic conditions influence respondent choices for future growth scenarios using a discrete choice model that includes six attributes: residential growth, protected grasslands, distance to recreation, agriculture, bison presence, and unemployment. Next, using only the data collected from …
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Essays on Taxation, Marriage, and Labor Supply
… by self-selection, I build a dynamic stochastic discrete choice model to investigate the long run effects of the earned income tax credit and welfare policies on single mothers' labor supply. Simulated method of moments is used to estimate parameters of this dynamic model, based on March CPS data …
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Collaborative ranking from ordinal data
… of users through the multinomial logit (MNL) model, a discrete choice model. It also shows that the algorithm is efficient in terms of the number of observations needed.
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Assortment and Pricing Optimisation under non-conventional customer choice models
… provided that customers follow a certain model of choice. Most studied models satisfy the following property: whenever the offered set is enlarged, then the probability of selecting a specific product decreases. This property is called regularity in the literature. However, customer …
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Assortment and Pricing Optimisation under non-conventional customer choice models
… provided that customers follow a certain model of choice. Most studied models satisfy the following property: whenever the offered set is enlarged, then the probability of selecting a specific product decreases. This property is called regularity in the literature. However, customer …
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Residential location choices of millennials: Evidence from the urbanized area of Chicago
… on Millennials’ travel behavior and location choices is mixed, with many studies suggesting that the urban-revival led by Millennials is more likely to be transitory. This thesis investigates the mobility patterns of Millennial and Generation X (born between 1965 and 1985) households in the …
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An Investigation into the Demand for Service Contracts
… decision to buy a service contract with a discrete choice model. Hypotheses and conjectures are tested empirically using survey data from new vehicle buyers. The second chapter consists of the development and testing of an instrument for measuring attitudes toward uncertainty. This tool is …
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Persistence in Residential Choice and Neighborhood Attachment
… I study the persistence of household residential choice using data from Boston during the Great Migration, where the in-migration of African Americans was a large demographic shock to existing neighborhood composition. Using novel panel data that tracks individual residential choices, I document …
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Consumer Willingness-to-pay for Concord Grape Juice Treated by High-pressure Processing and Pulsed Electric Field
… consumers’ willingness to pay designing a discrete choice model experiment. Mixed logit models and Latent-class logit models are used to estimate consumers’ willingness to pay toward different attributes including processing technology for the productions of Concord grape juice. We found …
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Analysis off Dependent Discrete Choices Using Gaussian Copula
<p>A popular tool for analyzing product choices of consumers is the well-known conditional logit discrete choice model. Originally publicized by McFadden (1974), this model assumes that the random components of the underlying latent utility functions of the consumers follow independent Gumbel …
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Behaviorally-Informed Discrete Choice Models in Operations Management
This thesis advances choice-based Revenue Management by integrating behavioral realism into analytical models of pricing and assortment optimization. Traditional discrete choice models (DCMs) simplify customer behavior by assuming that greater variety always increases purchase likelihood, that …
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Dynamics of vehicle ownership in Singapore
… Using survey data from 1997 to 2008, a discrete choice model of vehicle ownership suggests that income dominates the household vehicle ownership decision. Further modeling, attempting to detect preference change over the years, suggests that the dynamics of income's influence on vehicle …
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The impact of heterogenous consumer preferences on welfare outcomes of government interventions
… are further explored by developing a structural model of demand and supply in a discrete-choice framework. We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over …
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Travel behaviors during a public health biological emergency requiring points of dispensing
… This dissertation develops a behavioral discrete choice model that predicts the decisions of if people go to PODs, at what time of day, and to which location, based on data collected from pilot interviews, focus groups of public health, emergency management, and transportation …
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An Analysis of the Financial Incentives Impact on the Utility Demand-Side Management Programs
… the combination of the customer participation modeling and the cost-benefit analysis of a DSM program. A modeling of customer participation by a discrete choice model is presented. The model uses the logistic probability functions. The benefit and cost of DSM programs are explored to develop …
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Data-driven modeling of the airport runway configuration selection process using maximum likelihood discrete-choice models
… runway configuration. This paper identifies a discrete-choice model of the configuration selection process from empirical data. The model reflects the importance of various factors in terms of a utility function. Given the weather, traffic demand and the current runway configuration, the model …
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Empirical Studies of Discrete Choice Models in Health, Fertility, and Voting
Almost everything that we do involves a choice. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the development and application of quantitative statistical methods to study choices made by individuals with the purpose of gaining a better understanding of how choices are made and also to …
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