Mathematical modeling of behavior

Laboratories

Date	Topic	Type	Assignment	Files
Sep 20	Choice data and datasets	Computer lab	None	Presentation 1 Instructions 1 data file
Sep 27	Choice theory	Exercices	None	Instructions 2
Oct 4	Introduction to Biogeme	Computer lab	None	Presentation 3 Instructions 3 First Example Biogeme syntax Binary Netherlands Binary Airline Binary Optima
Oct 11	Specification and estimation	Exercices	None	Instructions 4
Oct 18	Estimation of logit models	Computer lab	Receive the project assignment.	Instructions 5 MNL Airline
Oct 25	Segmentation and tests	Computer lab	None	Instructions 6 MNL Airline Specifications
Nov 1	Calculating indicators	Exercices	None	Instructions 7
Nov 8	Validation and forecasting	Computer lab	None	Presentation 8 Instructions 8 Case study
Nov 15	Incremental logit	Exercices	None	Instructions 9
Nov 22	Estimation of NL and CNL models	Computer lab	None	Instructions 10 Swissmetro Telephone Services
Nov 29	Sampling	Exercices	Hand in project by Nov. 29th.	Instructions 11
Dec 6	Estimation of mixtures and latent variables models	Computer lab	None	Instructions 12 Case studies
Dec 13	Modeling with latent variables	Exercices	None	Instructions 13
Dec 20	Q & A	Review of last year's exam	None

Datasets 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

Assignments

The exercices and the assignement are organized in groups of 4 people (groups of 3 and 5 will also be accepted). The groups will be determined by yourselves.

The students must hand in one project during the semester.

The following documents must be sent as a single .zip file by email before November 29th :

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

Model specification .py file

The excel file you used for the analysis

The HTML output file of the results

Project files	Files
Optima project	[optima.zip]