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Consumer Preference Heterogeneity Evaluation in Fruit and Vegetable Purchasing Decisions Using the Best–Worst Approach

open access: yesFoods, 2019
This study assesses consumer preferences during fruit and vegetable (FV) sales, considering the sociodemographic variables of individuals together with their choice of point of purchase.
Stefano Massaglia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparison of methods for converting DCE values onto the full health-dead QALY scale [PDF]

open access: yes
Cardinal preference elicitation techniques such as time trade-off (TTO) and Standard Gamble (SG) receive criticism for their complexity and difficulties in using them in more vulnerable populations.
Brazier, John   +2 more
core  

Estimation of a preference based single index from the sexual quality of life questionnaire (SQOL) using ordinal data [PDF]

open access: yes
There is increasing interest in using ordinal methods to estimate cardinal values for health states to calculate quality adjusted life years. This paper reports the estimation of models of rank data and discrete choice experiment (DCE) data to derive a ...
Brazier, J.   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Schwartz Values Clusters and Tourists' Activities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Values have been related to tourist activities, producing contrasting results in different studies. This study helps to clarify the relationship between value patterns or segments and tourist activities using two different approaches to measuring ...
Daly, T   +4 more
core  

Improved approximation algorithm for k-level UFL with penalties, a simplistic view on randomizing the scaling parameter

open access: yes, 2013
The state of the art in approximation algorithms for facility location problems are complicated combinations of various techniques. In particular, the currently best 1.488-approximation algorithm for the uncapacitated facility location (UFL) problem by ...
A. Ageev   +13 more
core   +1 more source

AHP STRUCTURING IN BEST-WORST SCALING AND THE SECRETARY PROBLEM

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2016
 The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is the widely known method and methodology of multiple criteria decision making, which enriches many other areas of mathematical and statistical data analysis. This work considers an extension of AHP hierarchical structuring by incorporating it into another method of prioritization known in marketing research as ...
openaire   +1 more source

WHO IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING THE MEAT WE EAT IS SAFE? [PDF]

open access: yes
We report results of an analysis of the attribution of relative responsibility across the stages of the food chain for ensuring food safety. Specifically, we identify perceptions of the share of the overall responsibility that each stage in the food ...
Erdem, Seda, Rigby, Dan, Wossink, Ada
core   +1 more source

Shape matching by curve modelling and alignment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Automatic information retrieval in the eld of shape recognition has been widely covered by many research elds. Various techniques have been developed using different approaches such as intensity-based, modelbased and shape-based methods.
DI RUBERTO, CECILIA   +2 more
core  

How do parents and providers trade-off between disability and survival? Preferences in the treatment of pediatric medulloblastoma

open access: yesPatient Preference and Adherence, 2018
Amir Khakban,1 Tima Mohammadi,2 Larry D Lynd,1 Don J Mabbott,3,4 Eric Bouffet,5,6 Louise Gastonguay,1 Zafar Zafari,7 David Malkin,5,6 Michael D Taylor,8,9 Carlo A Marra10 1Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Faculty of Pharmaceutical ...
Khakban A   +9 more
doaj  

The Wine Attributes with the Greatest Influence in the Process of Consumer Choice in Spain [PDF]

open access: yes
The commercialisation of wine in Spain is problematic due to two concrete circumstances: the decrease in wine consumption because of a consumer shift toward substitute drinks and the greater presence of national and foreign wine in the interior market ...
Bernabeu, Rodolfo   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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