Handling respondent uncertainty in Choice Experiments: Evaluating recoding approaches against explicit modelling of uncertainty

Journal of Choice Modelling

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-147

  Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark ^a   Olsen, Søren Bøye ^b   Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl ^a   Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environmental valuation; Random parameter error component logit; Recoding; Scaling approach; Stated certainty in choice; Variance heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960150555     PISSN: 17555345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1755-5345(13)70007-1     Document Type: Article

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