Chinese consumers' preferences for livestock products

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 62-76

  Peng, Xuehua ^a   Marchant, Mary A ^a   Qin, Xiang Dong ^b   Zhuang, Jun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Factor analysis; Livestock products; Ordered probit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744554295     PISSN: 15592448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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