Latent class structures: Taste heterogeneity and beyond

Handbook of Choice Modelling

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 311-330

  Hess, Stephane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84958116708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781003152.00021     Document Type: Chapter

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