The demand for local telephone service: a fully discrete model of residential calling patterns and service choices

By Kenneth Train, Daniel McFadden, Moshe E. Ben-Akiva. 1987

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SHOPPER: A Probabilistic Model of Consumer Choice with Substitutes and Complements (2017, methodology): “As one demonstration, we project them on to 2-dimensional space(van der Maaten and Hinton, 2008) and then examine the items in diﬀerent regions of the projected space.”
Variational Inference for Large-Scale Models of Discrete Choice (2007, background): “1 Introduction Discrete choice models have a long history in statistical analysis, appearing in applications as varied as the analysis of consumer choice data (Guadagni and Little 1983; Fader and Hardie 1996), transportation planning (Theil 1969; McFadden 1974; Ben-Akiva and Lerman 1985), economic d”
Does Uncertainty Matter? Consumer Behavior Under Three-Part Tariffs (2007, unknown): “Previous work has found tariff choice elasticities under two-part tariffs for local telephone service from 0.46− to 2.19− (Train et al. 1987; Danaher 2002).”
Assortment Optimization Under Variants of the Nested Logit Model (2014, methodology): “…studies that fit the nested logit model to customer choice data and end up with estimates for the nest dissimilarity parameters exceeding one; see Train et al. (1987), Train et al. (1989), Lee (1999), Tiwari and Hasegawa (2004) and Yates and Mackay (2006) applications in telephone service and…”
The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children (2014, unknown): “The MML and closely-related alternatives have been used to understand people’s automobile ownership decisions and transportation choices [13], their decisions about telephone services and telephone use [14], and their choices of high- versus lower-efficiency refrigerators [15].”