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Tests of Weak Separability in Disaggregated Meat Products
Author(s) -
Nayga Rodolfo M.,
Capps Oral
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1243741
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , econometrics , mathematics , parametric statistics , statistics , epistemology , philosophy
Parametric tests of weak separability are conducted among twenty‐one disaggregate meat products, using scanner data and the absolute price version of the Rotterdam model. The tests indicate that consumers neither select among various cuts or qualities of a particular meat type nor select among meat types of like quality. Four partitions of the meat products are examined; in each case, the hypothesis of weak separability is rejected.