Evolving consumer trends for whey protein sports supplements: the Heckman ordered probit estimation

Agricultural and Food Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Keogh, Cian ^a,b   Li, Chenguang ^a   Gao, Zhifeng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Consumer Marketing Division ^*  (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Food and nutrition; Heckman ordered probit; Whey protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063866599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40100-019-0125-9     Document Type: Article

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