Stated preference surveys often give minimal attention to distinctions between intermediate and final ecosystem services, leading to the potential for biased or ambiguous welfare estimates. This paper illustrate ways in which multimetric ecological indexes of the type developed in the ecological literature, here an index of biotic integrity, can be used in stated preference scenarios to both im...

Classical foundations of expected utility were provided by Ramsey, de Finetti, von Neumann and Morgenstern, Anscombe and Aumann, and others. These foundations describe preference conditions to capture the empirical content of expected utility. The assumed preference conditions, however, vary among the models and a unifying idea is not readily transparent. Providing such a unifying idea is the p...

BACKGROUND Previous research showed inconsistent results regarding the relationship between the age of patients and preference statements regarding GP care. This study investigates whether elderly patients have different preference scores and ranking orders concerning 58 preference statements for GP care than younger patients. Moreover, this study examines whether patient characteristics and pr...

This paper presents a structural econometric framework for discrete and continuous consumer choices in which unobserved preference heterogeneity is modeled explicitly. The model is applied to analyze data from the U.C. Berkeley Internet Demand Experiment (INDEX). This experiment records participants’ ISDN line usage for Internet access under various price-quality combinations. A structural util...

The PROMETHEE is a significant method for evaluating alternatives with respect to criteria in multi-criteria decision-making problems. It is characterized by many types of preference functions that are used for assigning the differences between alternatives in judgements. This paper proposes a preference of green suppliers using the PROMETHEE under the usual criterion preference functions. Comp...

Energy status was analyzed in glass eels captured during two early waves of arrival at the mouths of the Mersey River, Nova Scotia, Canada (MR), and Grande-Rivière-Blanche, Québec, Canada (GRB), and according to their salinity preference (freshwater, brackish, or saltwater). Glass eels captured in the GRB estuary were larger, more pigmented, and exhibited higher whole-body glycogen, phospholipi...

This study uses three types of pairwise comparisons algorithm which are horizontal vertical and oblique to construct Multi-Criteria Decision Making with Incomplete Linguistic Preference Relations Model. The use of pairwise comparisons will not produce the problem of inconsistency, which even allows every decision expert to choose an explicit criterion or alternative for index unrestrictedly. Wh...

OBJECTIVE Psychosocial and demographic correlates of fruit, juice and vegetable (FJV) consumption were investigated to guide how to increase FJV intake. DESIGN Hierarchical multiple regression analysis of FJV consumption on demographics and psychosocial variables. SETTING Houston, Texas, USA. SUBJECTS Boys aged 11-14 years (n = 473). RESULTS FJV preference and availability were both sig...

The major profit of portal companies in Taiwan is generated by online advertising and e-commerce. Effective advertising requires predicting how a user responds to an advertisement and then targeting (presenting the advertisements) to reflect users’ favor. As customers’ preferences may change over time, we take the different types of past behavior patterns of the registered members to capture co...