A new approach for modelling consumers' preferences

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-259

  Piccolo, Domenico ^a   D'Elia, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eurosalmon project; MUB model; Ordinal data; Preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749086550     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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