Mathematical modeling of behavior

Laboratories

Date	Topic	Assignment	Files
Sep 18	Case studies introduction	None	Instructions 1 Example of data and model files Presentation 1
Sep 25	Binary Logit I	Working on 1st assignement	Instructions 2 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Choice-Lab Marketing Mode Choice (Netherlands) Residential Telephone Services Mode Choice (Optima) Presentation 2 hints for asignment 1
Oct 2	Binary Logit II	Work on 1st assignement Hand in Friday 5th Oct	Presentation 3
Oct 9	Biogeme output	None	Instructions 4
Oct 16	Multinomial Logit I	None	Instructions 5 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Mode Choice (Optima)
Oct 23	Multinomial Logit II	None	Instructions 6 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing)
Oct 30	MNL specification testing I	Working on 2nd assignement	Instructions 7
Nov 6	MNL specification testing II	Work on 2nd assignement Hand in Friday 9th Nov
Nov 13	Nested Logit and Cross-Nested Logit I	None	Instructions 8 Swissmetro Residential Telephone Services
Nov 20	Nested Logit and Cross-Nested Logit II	None
Nov 27	Validation and forecasting introduction	Working on 3rd assignement	Instructions 9 Forecasting example
Dec 4	Forecasting and price optimization	Work on 3rd assignement Hand in Friday 7th Dec	Instructions 10 Forecasting and price optimization example
Dec 11	Mixtures of models	None	Instructions 11
Dec 18	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 3 assignments during the semester:

Binary Logit

Multinomial Logit

Forecasting and price optimization

The exercices and assignements are organized in groups of 3-4 students. These groups will be determined randomly by the teaching assistants and communicated via email to enrolled participants.

There are two exercise sessions for each assignment and 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 the PDF or Word format

Model specification in .mod (text) format

The HTML output file of the results