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by stephanehess
19 May 2020, 12:46
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Between subject design
Replies: 3
Views: 6259

Re: Between subject design

Dominik

I think what you need to do first is to analyse the choices in the two subsets. Your results are quite possibly driven by a situation where nobody in the private segment chooses option 6 or 8

Best wishes

Stephane
by stephanehess
18 May 2020, 14:12
Forum: Errors during model validation and/or estimation.
Topic: Error in Bayesian estimation
Replies: 6
Views: 9834

Re: Error in Bayesian estimation

Hi Jason this is a common issue that happens to people when using Bayesian estimation through RSGHB. The issue is that you ran the whole file in one go. RSGHB, which is used by Apollo for Bayesian estimation, asks you to confirm before continuing the estimation. As you ran the whole file in one go, ...
by stephanehess
16 May 2020, 21:50
Forum: Post-estimation analysis/use of results
Topic: conditionals for random parameters when an individual has lots of observations
Replies: 5
Views: 8165

Re: conditionals for random parameters when an individual has lots of observations

Hi Wenjian so in effect you're treating each state as an "individual" in the model, with random heterogeneity across states. This is of course final methodologically, but you should be aware that with only 51 states, you only have a low number of "individuals" to which to fit a c...
by stephanehess
15 May 2020, 16:09
Forum: Examples (existing and requests for new ones)
Topic: LC model with covariate
Replies: 2
Views: 10313

Re: LC model with covariate

Hi Suzana

this is the likelihood equivalent of Equation 11.5. I have clarified this in the manual for v.0.1.1. Please also consult Eqn 14 in https://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/A ... egment.pdf

Best wishes

Stephane
by stephanehess
15 May 2020, 14:29
Forum: Post-estimation analysis/use of results
Topic: conditionals for random parameters when an individual has lots of observations
Replies: 5
Views: 8165

Re: conditionals for random parameters when an individual has lots of observations

Hi Wenjian the error message you received was not very intuitive, apologies fort that. We have improved this error message in version 0.1.1. However, the computation of conditionals is not possible when using workInLogs. To compute conditionals, we need the probability of an individual's entire sequ...
by stephanehess
14 May 2020, 20:30
Forum: Model specification
Topic: How to choose random parameters for MMNL model
Replies: 3
Views: 6336

Re: How to choose random parameters for MMNL model

Dear Shan it is always impossible to know a priori which parameters are the right ones in terms of allowing for random heterogeneity. It is quite possible that random heterogeneity exists for most or all your coefficients. If you only allow for random heterogeneity in some of them, you will of cours...
by stephanehess
14 May 2020, 14:53
Forum: Post-estimation analysis/use of results
Topic: ICLV model scenario (simulation) analysis
Replies: 4
Views: 23582

Re: ICLV model scenario (simulation) analysis

Hi Junghwan as discussed by Chorus & Kroesen, it is not advisable to make a change to the latent attitude in forecasting as the scale of this arbitrary. So e.g. a 10% increase is not a meaningful concept. What we did in the 2018 paper is to look at a situation where everyone adopted the attitude...
by stephanehess
14 May 2020, 14:45
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Between subject design
Replies: 3
Views: 6259

Re: Between subject design

Hi Dominik so what you are doing here is to allow for differencesin the value for the ASCs and the marginal utility coefficients as a function of the condition. That's the right thing to do. When you allow for differences in all terms, then this is equivalent to estimating two separate models, but y...
by stephanehess
12 May 2020, 16:13
Forum: Installation and updating
Topic: Installing Apollo from zip file
Replies: 3
Views: 12637

Re: install a package from zip file

Hi Sara

you need to install from the binaries rather than the soruce file

Best wishes

Stephane