Can Apollo perform simultaneous estimation of an ICLV model with a mixed logit for the following utility?
V = beta_time*time + beta_cost*cost + beta_LV1*LV1 + beta_LV2*LV2
as beta_time or beta_cost is random (normal or log-normal).
I found Apollo supports simultaneous ICLV with MNL, but some literature said simultaneous estimation was limited to MNL.
Is it now possible in Apollo to estimate this ICLV with mixed logit (random parameters) simultaneously?
Thanks!
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ICLV simultaneous estimation with random parameters
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stephanehess
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Re: ICLV simultaneous estimation with random parameters
Hi
of course. You can set any parameters to be random
As a theoretical clarification, note that any ICLV model is a mixture model, and the MNL part simply becomes the kernel of that mixture. So even if your beta_time and beta_cost were fixed, this would still be in effect a MMNL kernel
Best wishes
Stephane
of course. You can set any parameters to be random
As a theoretical clarification, note that any ICLV model is a mixture model, and the MNL part simply becomes the kernel of that mixture. So even if your beta_time and beta_cost were fixed, this would still be in effect a MMNL kernel
Best wishes
Stephane