Article ID: | iaor20132881 |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 583 |
End Page Number: | 607 |
Publication Date: | May 2013 |
Journal: | Transportation |
Authors: | Hess Stephane, Stathopoulos Amanda, Campbell Danny, ONeill Vikki, Caussade Sebastian |
Keywords: | behaviour, transportation: general |
With the growing interest in the topic of attribute non‐attendance, there is now widespread use of latent class (LC) structures aimed at capturing such behaviour, across a number of different fields. Specifically, these studies rely on a confirmatory LC model, using two separate values for each coefficient, one of which is fixed to zero while the other is estimated, and then use the obtained class probabilities as an indication of the degree of attribute non‐attendance. In the present paper, we argue that this approach is in fact misguided, and that the results are likely to be affected by confounding with