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by Pea
12 Dec 2023, 20:40
Forum: Estimation results
Topic: When to use robust standard errors and "normal" standard errors?
Replies: 1
Views: 1130

When to use robust standard errors and "normal" standard errors?

Hi! I have been consistently looking at robust standard errors and t-ratios when interpreting my results (I'm conducting a choice experiment and I analyse the results through multinominal and mixed logit models in Apollo). Now I have become in doubt as to whether I should have focused on the "n...
by Pea
13 Oct 2023, 12:08
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Bimodal/multimodal distribution of mixed logit random coefficients
Replies: 4
Views: 11902

Re: Bimodal/multimodal distribution of mixed logit random coefficients

Hi Stephane

Thank you so much for responding. I'm afraid I've read the paper, but I don't seem to understand it well enough to be able to implement the approach in Apollo... You wouldn't happen to have a piece of code where the approach is used inside apollo_randCoeff, would you?

Best wishes
Pea
by Pea
07 Oct 2023, 16:22
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Bimodal/multimodal distribution of mixed logit random coefficients
Replies: 4
Views: 11902

Bimodal/multimodal distribution of mixed logit random coefficients

Hi! In Hess and Palma (2019) on page 15, it is shown how to make the random coefficients in a mixed logit follow a negative Lognormal distribution, a symmetrical Triangular distribution and a Johnson SB distribution, using Apollo. Is it also possible to make them follow a bimodal or multimodal distr...