Modeling Individual Choice with NLOGIT: Model Estimation
NLOGIT supports a wide variety of specifications for discrete choice modeling.
Multinomial logit - many specifications
Random effects MNL
- Multinomial logit specification
- Choice specific constants
- Random effects and random parameters
- Choice specific attributes and interactions of characteristics with constants
- Marginal effects
- Test procedure for IIA
- Restricted choice sets
- Estimation using revealed preference or sets of ranks
- Merge stated and revealed preference data sets
Nested logit
Generalized nested logit
- Up to four levels in nested logit models
- Command builder for tree specification
- Constrained IV parameters
- Marginal effects decomposed at the levels in the tree
- Save utilities, inclusive values, probabilities
- FIML or two step estimation
- Random utility specifications to constrain the model
- Generalized nested logit allows choices to appear in multiple branches
- GNL with probabilistic allocations of choices to alternatives
- Up to 20 choices
- GHK simulator
- Unrestricted or restricted correlation matrix
- IIA test
- Heteroscedasticity and covariance heterogeneity
- Panel data - multinomial, multiperiod probit
Mixed (random parameters) logit
Kernel logit
- Up to 100 random parameters
- Maximum simulated likelihood estimation
- Pseudorandom draws or Halton sequences
- Mixture of random and nonrandom parameters
- Panel data structures
- Time invariant random effects
- AR(1) specification for random components
- Freely correlated random parameters
- Unrestricted mixture of normal, lognormal, tent, uniform parameters
- Restrictions on means and/or variances of random parameters
- Individual heterogeneity in means of random parameters
- Individual specific parameter estimates
- Error components logit allows choice specific random effects
- Error components logit with stochastic specifications for nesting structures
- Choice specific variances in MNL model
- Equality restrictions and grouping choices
- IIA test
- Homogeneity of variances test
- Extends two level nested logit model
- Individual specific heteroscedasticity and heterogeneity in IV parameters
- Multinomial logit structure
- MNL sub model for class probabilities
- Panel data structure
- Up to five latent classes