Mathematical modeling of behavior

Laboratories

Date	Topic	Assignment	Files
			Group assignment (list of groups) NEW VERSION
Sep 15	Introduction	None	Instructions 1 Example of data and model files Presentation 1
Sep 22	Biogeme and model specification	None	Instructions 2 Questions for students 2 Airline Itinerary Choice (Boeing) Choice-Lab Marketing Mode Choice (Netherlands) Residential Telephone Services Presentation 2
Sep 29	Binary Logit	None	Instructions 3 Questions for students 3 Datasets Presentation 3
Oct 6	Multinomial Logit	You will receive the project assignment.	Instructions 4 Questions for students 4 Case study
Oct 13	Non-linearities and tests	None	Instructions 5 Questions for students 5 Case study Scientific paper
Oct 20	Segmentation and tests	None	Instructions 6 Questions for students 6 Case study
Oct 27	Validation	None	Instructions 7 Questions for students 7 Case study
Nov 3	Forecasting	None	Instructions 8 Questions for students 8 Case study
Nov 10	Nested Logit and Cross Nested Logit I	None	Instructions 9 Questions for students 9 Case study Swissmetro Case study Telephone
Nov 17	Whiteboard exercises (In room CM011)	None	Exercises
Nov 24	Revision of concepts and work on the assignment	Work on assignment Hand in Friday, Nov. 27th at noon	Questions for students 11
Dec 1	Nested Logit and Cross Nested Logit II	None
Dec 8	Mixtures of models	None	Instructions 13 Questions for students 13
Dec 15	Session for answering questions	Review of last year's exam

Data sets descriptions

Name	Description
Transportation Mode Choice in the Netherlands	[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 one assignment during the semester.

The exercices and assignement are organized in groups of 3 students. The groups will be determined by the teaching assistants with a random process and communicated via email to enrolled participants. It is compulsory to submit the assignment in order to take the final exam.

The following documents must be sent, as a single .zip file, by email to the assistants before November 27th :

Report of maximum 4 (2 double-sided) pages in PDF format

Model specification in .mod (text) format

The excel file you use for the analysis

The HTML output file of the results

Project files	Files
Version A (for groups with odd id)	[.zip]
Version B (for groups with even id)	[.zip]