When results from a survey containing a choice section comes back from the field, format your data In 3 minutes for any of these discrete-choice estimation programs:
- Michel Bierlaire's Biogeme
- Sawtooth Software's CBC/HB
- Train's Gauss estimation routine
- Statistical Innovations' Latent GOLD Choice
- Limdep's NLOGIT
- XlStat's Conjoint program
- R's mlogit library
- R's RSGHB library
Data Wizard Benefits
- Eliminates the most tedious portion of a discrete-choice project: data setup
- Removes a common source of error: the lengthy customized data manipulation routines needed to sort and merge design response data
- Cuts at least a day off a discrete-choice project's schedule
- Typically pays for itself in one project
Data Wizard Features
Time Savers
- Requires only a simple flat Excel file of responses.
- Automatic recoding of binary variables
- Generation of 8-character variable names
- Supports attribute and category labels
- Attribute formatting preserved in choice sets
- Integration with experimental designs produced by Design Wizard
- Multiple output data sets can be constructed from one source data set
- Automatically generates control files for running estimations.
- Ease of data setup permits exploring different methodologies at minimal additional cost.
Data structures supported
- Rectangular file with respondents in rows and questions in columns
- Stacked data with alternatives in rows and questions in columns
Data files generated for statistical packages:
- Latent GOLD Choice
- Kenneth Train's Mixed Logit routine in Gauss
- Limdep NLOGIT text data files
- Limdep NLOGIT Excel data files
- Sawtooth Software's CBC/HB
- Biogeme
- Various R packages
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Software Requirements
- Microsoft Windows® operating system
- Microsoft Excel® 2000 or later