The use of alternative preference elicitation methods in complex discrete choice experiments

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1166-1179

  Yoo, Hong Il ^a,b   Doiron, Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best worst scaling; Discrete choice experiment; Latent class logit; Maximum difference model; Preference elicitation; Rank ordered data

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; JOB SEARCH; MODELING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEST WORST SCALING; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; NURSING AS A PROFESSION; NURSING CAREER; SALARY; WORKLOAD; DECISION MAKING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84886290219     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: 18791646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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