Identification and management of nonsystematic purchase task data: Toward best practice

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 377-386

  Stein, Jeffrey S ^a   Koffarnus, Mikhail N ^a   Snider, Sarah E ^a   Quisenberry, Amanda J ^a   Bickel, Warren K ^a  

^a VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Demand; Elasticity; Nonsystematic data; Outliers; Purchase task

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMODIFICATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONSYSTEMATIC PURCHASE TASK DATA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PURCHASING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREND STUDY; ADULT; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DATA COLLECTION; ECONOMICS, BEHAVIORAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942110244     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: 19362293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pha0000020     Document Type: Article

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