Best-worst scaling: Theory and methods

Handbook of Choice Modelling

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 178-201

  Flynn, T N ^a   Marley, A A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84925419045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781003152.00014     Document Type: Chapter

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