Using data collected from a major supermarket chain, a regression model is estimated to describe buyers' judgments of the profitability of new products. Results indicate how different variables influence these judgments. Implications of new product introductions for private firm strategies and...

The statistical measures used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 1995 to monitor the food security of the Nation’s households—the extent to which they can consistently acquire adequate food for active healthy living—are based on a single-parameter logistic latent-trait measurement...