This project report was completed by 14 graduate and undergraduate students in a social impact assessment course (AREC 450-550) during the Winter Term, January to April, 2009. The overall goal of this project was to learn specific concepts and methods for social impact assessment by undertaking...

It is a common practice to rescale data to assist the model estimation process. This paper describes a case where care is called upon when interpreting the results after rescaling. The case is shown as associated with the lognormally distributed coefficient in a mixed logit model. Implications...