Preference uncertainty, preference learning, and paired comparison experiments

Land Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 530-544

  Kingsley, David C ^a   Brown, Thomas C ^b  

^a WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VALUATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956162201     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.86.3.530     Document Type: Article

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