Mathematical modeling of behavior

Laboratories

Date	Topic	Assignment	Files
			Group assignment
Sep 17	Introduction to the case studies	None	Instructions 1 Example of data and model files Presentation 1
Sep 24	Binary Logit I	None	Instructions 2 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Choice-Lab Marketing Mode Choice (Netherlands) Residential Telephone Services Mode Choice (Optima) Presentation 2
Oct 1	Binary Logit II	Work on 1st assignement	Instructions 3 Hints for the 1st assignment Presentation 3
Oct 8	Biogeme output	Work on 1st assignement Hand in Friday, Oct. 11th at noon	Homework Peer-review instructions for Session 6
Oct 15	Multinomial Logit	None	Instructions 5 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing)
Oct 22	Multinomial Logit II	Peer review presentations on the 1st assignent	Peer-to-peer review schedule
Oct 29	MNL specification testing I	None	Instructions 7 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing)
Nov 5	MNL specification testing II	None	Instructions 8 Optima dataset
Nov 12	Validation and forecasting introduction	None	Instructions 9 Forecasting example
Nov 19	Forecasting and price optimization	Work on 2nd assignement	Instructions 10 Forecasting and price optimization example
Nov 26	Nested Logit and Cross-Nested Logit I	Working on 2nd assignement Hand in Friday, Nov. 29th at noon	Instructions 11 Swissmetro Residential Telephone Services
Dec 3	Nested Logit and Cross-Nested Logit II	None	Peer-review instructions for Session 13
Dec 10	Mixtures of models	Peer review presentations on the 2nd assignent	Instructions 13 (Homework)
Dec 17	Session for answering questions	None

Data sets descriptions

Name	Description
Transportation Mode Choice in the Netherlands	[pdf]
Choice-Lab Marketing	[pdf]
Residential Telephone Services	[pdf]
Swissmetro	[pdf]
Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing)	[pdf]
Mode choice in Switzerland (Optima)	[pdf]

Biogeme

Biogeme official homepage
Short introduction to Biogeme
Tutorial Biogeme v1.8

Assignments

The students must hand in 2 assignments during the semester:

Binary Logit (Friday, Oct. 11th)

Forecasting and price optimization (Friday, Nov. 29th)

The exercices and assignements are organized in groups of 4 students. The groups will be determined by the teaching assistants with a random process and communicated via email to enrolled participants.

There are two exercise sessions for each assignment. The following documents must be sent by email to the assistants before Friday at noon after the second exercise session:

Maximum 1 double-sided page of assignment in PDF or Word format

Model specification in .mod (text) format

The HTML output file of the results

There are two sessions dedicated to presentations of the peer review process oucome. Each group will be asked to give a short presentation to provide feedback on another group's assignment.