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On the treatment of repeated observations in panel data: efficiency of mixed logit parameter estimates

Yáñez, M.F.; Cherchi, E.; Heydecker, B.G.; Ortúzar, J.d.-D.; (2011) On the treatment of repeated observations in panel data: efficiency of mixed logit parameter estimates. Networks and Spatial Economics , 11 (3) pp. 393-418. 10.1007/s11067-010-9143-6. Green open access

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Abstract

Travel demand models are often estimated using cross-sectional data. Although the use of panel data has recently increased in many areas, there are still many aspects that have not been analyzed fully. Some examples of unexplored topics are: the optimal length of panel surveys and the resulting issue of how to model panel data correctly in the presence of repeated observations (for example, several trips per week, by people in a panel with waves every six months) and whether, and to what extent, this affects the efficiency of the estimated parameters and their capability to replicate the true situation. In this paper we analyse this issue and test the effect of including journeys made, with the same characteristics, several times in a week. A broad variety of models accounting for fixed parameters but also for random heterogeneity and correlation among individuals were estimated using each of real and synthetic data. The real data come from the Santiago Panel (2006-2008), while the synthetic data were appropriately generated to examine the same problem in a controlled experiment. Our results show that having more observations per individual increases the probability of capturing effects (different types of heterocedasticity), but having identical observations in a data panel reduces the capability to reproduce true phenomena. Consequently, the definition of panel survey duration requires us to consider the implicit level of routine that is present as represented in the proportion of identical observations.

Type: Article
Title: On the treatment of repeated observations in panel data: efficiency of mixed logit parameter estimates
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s11067-010-9143-6
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11067-010-9143-6
Language: English
Additional information: The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Keywords: Panel data with repeated observations, discrete choice models, parameter efficiency
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/18968
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