The self selection of complexity in choice experiments

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 786-800

  Burton, Michael ^a   Rigby, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Complexity; Error variance; Excessive choice

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859182325     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aas015     Document Type: Article

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