New Developments in Psychological Choice Modeling

A selection of 15 papers on choice modeling are presented in this volume. These papers result from research in the social and behavioral sciences and in economics. The models, some deterministic, some probabilistic, represent recent developments in the tradition of Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgement, Coombs' unfolding theory and multidimensional scaling. The theoretical contributions and several applications to voting behaviour, consumer research and preference rankings show the important progress made in psychological choice modeling during the last few years.

Order Invariant Unfolding Analysis under Smoothness RestrictionsAn Analytical Approach to UnfoldingGENFOLD 2: A General Unfolding Methodology for the Analysis of Preference/Dominance DataMaximum Likelihood Unidimensional Unfolding for a Probabilistic Model without Distributional AssumptionsLatent Class Models for the Analysis of RankingsThe Wandering Ideal Point Model for Analyzing Paired Comparisons DataAnalysis of Covariance Structures and Probabilistic Binary Choice ModelsTwo Classes of Stochastic Tree Unfolding ModelsProbabilistic Multidimensional Analysis of Preference Ration JudgmentsTesting Probabilistic Choice ModelsOn the Axiomatic Foundations of Unfolding, with an Application to Political Party Preferences of German VotersUnfolding and Consensus Ranking: A Prestige Ladder for Technical OccupationsUnfolding the German Political Parties: A Description and Application of Multiple Unidimensional UnfoldingProbabilistic Multidimensional Scaling Models for Analyzing Consumer Choice BehaviorProbabilistic Choice Behavior Models and their Combination with Additional Tools Needed for Applications to Marketing