Household consumption of cheese: An inverse hyperbolic sine double-hurdle model with dependent errors

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 246-251

  Yen, Steven T ^a   Jones, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cheese consumption; Heteroskedasticity; Limited dependent variable; Nationwide Food Consumption Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000182235     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1243958     Document Type: Article

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