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A Comparison of Alternative Ordered Response Models for Analysing User Satisfaction with Transport Services in Turkey

Transport and Telecommunication Journal
Volume 17 (2016): Issue 1 (March 2016)
By: Ali Kemal Çelik and  Ötüken Senger  
Open Access
|Feb 2016

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ttj-2016-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1407-6179 | Journal ISSN: 1407-6160
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Language: English
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Published on: Feb 22, 2016
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Keywords:
satisfaction,
ordered logit model,
generalized ordered logit model,
heterogeneous choice model,
partial constrained generalized ordered logit model,
Turkey
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