mnl_elasticities_parallel: Compute aggregate elasticities for MNL model

In choicer: Discrete Choice Models for Economic Applications

Compute aggregate elasticities for MNL model

Description

Computes the aggregate elasticity matrix (weighted average of individual elasticities) for the Multinomial Logit model.

Usage

mnl_elasticities_parallel(
  theta,
  X,
  alt_idx,
  choice_idx,
  M,
  weights,
  elast_var_idx,
  use_asc = TRUE,
  include_outside_option = FALSE
)

Arguments

theta	K + J - 1 or K + J vector with model parameters
X	sum(M) x K design matrix with covariates.
alt_idx	sum(M) x 1 vector with indices of alternatives; 1-based indexing
choice_idx	N x 1 vector (kept for API consistency, but not used)
M	N x 1 vector with number of alternatives for each individual
weights	N x 1 vector with weights for each observation
elast_var_idx	1-based index of the column in X for which to compute the elasticity
use_asc	whether to use alternative-specific constants
include_outside_option	whether to include outside option

Value

J x J matrix of aggregate elasticities

Examples

library(data.table)
set.seed(42)
N <- 50; J <- 3
dt <- data.table(id = rep(1:N, each = J), alt = rep(1:J, N))
dt[, `:=`(x1 = rnorm(.N), x2 = rnorm(.N))]
dt[, choice := 0L]
dt[, choice := sample(c(1L, rep(0L, J - 1))), by = id]
fit <- run_mnlogit(dt, "id", "alt", "choice", c("x1", "x2"))
elas <- choicer:::mnl_elasticities_parallel(coef(fit), fit$data$X, fit$data$alt_idx,
  fit$data$choice_idx, fit$data$M, fit$data$weights, elast_var_idx = 1L)
elas

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