102: Swissmetro Weighted MNL Mode Choice
102: Swissmetro Weighted MNL Mode Choice¶
This example is a mode choice model built using the Swissmetro example dataset. First we create the DB and Model objects:
import larch.examples
d = larch.examples.SWISSMETRO()
m = larch.Model(dataservice=d)
We can attach a title to the model. The title does not affect the calculations as all; it is merely used in various output report styles.
m.title = "swissmetro example 02 (weighted logit)"
We need to identify the availability and choice variables. These have been conveniently set up in the data.
m.availability_var = 'avail'
m.choice_ca_var = 'choice'
This model adds a weighting factor.
m.weight_co_var = "1.0*(GROUP==2)+1.2*(GROUP==3)"
The swissmetro dataset, as with all Biogeme data, is only in co format.
from larch.roles import P,X
m.utility_co[1] = P("ASC_TRAIN")
m.utility_co[2] = 0
m.utility_co[3] = P("ASC_CAR")
m.utility_co[1] += X("TRAIN_TT") * P("B_TIME")
m.utility_co[2] += X("SM_TT") * P("B_TIME")
m.utility_co[3] += X("CAR_TT") * P("B_TIME")
m.utility_co[1] += X("TRAIN_CO*(GA==0)") * P("B_COST")
m.utility_co[2] += X("SM_CO*(GA==0)") * P("B_COST")
m.utility_co[3] += X("CAR_CO") * P("B_COST")
Larch will find all the parameters in the model, but we’d like to output them in a rational order. We can use the ordering method to do this:
m.ordering = [
("ASCs", 'ASC.*',),
("LOS", 'B_.*',),
]
The swissmetro example models exclude some observations. We will use the selector to identify the observations we would like to keep. There are two selector criteria, and only cases that evaluate True for both are selected.
m.dataservice.selector = ["PURPOSE in (1,3)", "CHOICE != 0"]
We can estimate the models and check the results match up with those given by Biogeme:
>>> m.load_data()
>>> m.maximize_loglike(method='SLSQP')
┣ ...Optimization terminated successfully...
>>> m.loglike()
-5931.557...
>>> m.calculate_parameter_covariance()
>>> m.dataframes.weight_normalization
1.124734...
>>> m.parameter_summary('xml')
Category Parameter Value Std Err t Stat Null Value
ASCs ASC_CAR -0.1143 0.0407 -2.81 0.0
ASC_TRAIN -0.7565 0.0528 -14.32 0.0
LOS B_COST -0.0112 0.000490 -22.83 0.0
B_TIME -0.01322 0.000537 -24.62 0.0
Tip
If you want access to the model in this example without worrying about assembling all the code blocks together on your own, you can load a read-to-estimate copy like this:
m = larch.example(102)