Mathematical modeling of behavior

Laboratories

Date	Topic	Assignment	Files
			Group assignment Rooms for the midterm
Sep 16	Introduction	None	Instructions 1 Example of data and model files Presentation 1
Sep 23	Binary Logit I	None	Instructions 2 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Choice-Lab Marketing Mode Choice (Netherlands) Residential Telephone Services Presentation 2
Sep 30	Binary Logit II	Work on 1st assignement	Instructions 3 Hints for the 1st assignment Presentation 3 Mode Choice (Optima)
Oct 7	Biogeme output	Work on 1st assignement Hand in Friday, Oct. 11th at noon	Homework Peer-review instructions for Session 6
Oct 14	Multinomial Logit I	None	Instructions 5 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing)
Oct 21	Peer review presentations on the 1st assignent	None	Comments on assignment 1
Oct 28	MNL specification testing I	None	Instructions 7 Airline Itinerary Choice
Nov 4	Validation and forecasting introduction	None	Instructions 8 Forecasting example Optima Dataset
Nov 11	Forecasting and price optimization	Work on 2nd assignment	Instructions 9 Forecasting example
Nov 18	Nested and Cross-Nested Logit I	Work on 2nd assignement Hand in Friday, Nov. 21st at noon	Instructions 10 Swissmetro Residential Telephone Services
Nov 25	Nested and Cross-Nested Logit II	None	Peer-review instructions for Session 12
Dec 2	Peer review presentations on the 2nd assignment	None
Dec 9	Mixtures of models	None	Instructions 13
Dec 16	Session for answering questions	Review of last year's exam

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.

Forecasting and price optimization.

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.