Alcohol consumption, beverage prices and measurement error.
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Alcohol consumption, beverage prices and measurement error.
OBJECTIVE Alcohol price data collected by the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association (ACCRA) have been widely used in studies of alcohol consumption and related behaviors. A number of problems with these data suggest that they contain substantial measurement error, which biases conventional statistical estimators toward a finding of little or no effect of prices on behavior. We te...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Studies on Alcohol
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0096-882X,1934-2683
DOI: 10.15288/jsa.2003.64.235