OBJECTIVE To test the applicability of multi-criteria decision analysis preference elicitation techniques in cognitively impaired individuals. METHOD A convenience sample of 16 cognitively impaired subjects and 12 healthy controls was asked to participate in a small pilot study. The subjects determined the relative importance of four decision criteria using five different weight elicitation t...

Critiques of contingent valuation in the early 1990s (Hausman NOAA Panel) appear to have accelerated rcscarch efforts to investigate the use of conjoint analysis and choice-based methods for eliciting nonmarket values (Adamowicz, Louviere, and Williams; Adamowicz et al.; Garrod and Willis; Johnson and Desvousges; Johnston and Swallow; Holmes, Zinkhan, and Mcrccr; Layton and Lee; Mackenzie; Opal...

We briefly review and discuss traditional conjoint analysis (CA) and discrete choice experiments (DCEs), widely used stated preference elicitation methods in several disciplines. We pay particular attention to the origins and basis of CA, and show that it is generally inconsistent with economic demand theory, and is subject to several logical inconsistencies that make it unsuitable for use in a...

conclusions the conjoint analysis results show that gps concerned about various factors of family physician contracts. these results can be helpful for policy-makers as they complete the process of creating family physician plans, which can help increase the motivation of gps to participate in the plan. results the results show that “quotas for admission to specialized courses” is the strongest...

W develop and test an incentive-compatible Conjoint Poker (CP) game. The preference data collected in the context of this game are comparable to incentive-compatible choice-based conjoint (CBC) analysis data. We develop a statistical efficiency measure and an algorithm to construct efficient CP designs. We compare incentive-compatible CP to incentive-compatible CBC in a series of three experime...

Conjoint analysis studies involving many attributes and attribute levels often occur in practice. Because such studies can cause respondent fatigue and lack of cooperation, it is important to design data collection tasks that reduce those problems. Bridging designs, incorporating two or more task subsets with overlapping attributes, can presumably lower task difficulty in such cases. In this pa...

BACKGROUND Decision making in knee osteoarthritis, with many treatment options, challenges patients and physicians alike. Unfortunately, physicians cannot describe in detail each treatment's benefits and risks. One promising adjunct to decision making in osteoarthritis is adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA). OBJECTIVE To obtain insight into the experiences of elderly patients who use adaptive co...

A distributor of Apple products' experiences numerous difficulties in developing marketing strategies for new and existing mobile product entries that maximize customer satisfaction and the firm's profitability. This research, therefore, integrates market segmentation in platform-based product family design and conjoint analysis to identify iSystem combinations that increase customer satisfacti...