Consistently inconsistent: The role of certainty, acceptability and scale in choice

被引：36

作者：

Beck, Matthew J. ^{[1
]}

Rose, John M. ^{[1
]}

Hensher, David A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Sydney, Inst Transport & Logist Studies, Newtown, NSW 2006, Australia

来源：

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW | 2013年 / 56卷

关键词：

Scale; Heterogeneity; Choice certainty; Preferences; Alternative acceptability; Respondent behaviour; WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY; CONTINGENT VALUATION; HYPOTHETICAL BIAS; DECISION RESEARCH; FIELD EXPERIMENT; DISCRETE-CHOICE; MECHANISMS; PREFERENCE; RESPONSES; MODEL;

D O I：

10.1016/j.tre.2013.05.001

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Recently emerging in the stated preference literature as methods for better representing behaviour are choice certainty calibration and alternative acceptability. This paper finds that the amount of idiosyncratic error in the context of automobile choice is significant and can be explained by choice task certainty; which is a function of several respondent characteristics. However, it also finds that no theoretical framework exists for how these techniques should be applied and that econometric differences may be responsible for improvements in model fit, rather than better behavioural representation. Raising several questions about certainty indexing, researchers are advised to apply such methods cautiously. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：81 / 93

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