Purpose – This paper aims to add insights on consumers' price knowledge in food retailing using a theory‐based multi‐method approach. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides data from one questionnaire and two experimental studies. The aim of the first study was to address price...

The purpose of this project was to compare the cost of transportation engineering design services provided by private contractors versus services provided by state transportation agency staff for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD). Due to shrinking budgets, staff...

Purpose – The first objective of the paper is to determine whether the national currency changeover in Turkey has altered the level of consumer price knowledge. The second objective is to investigate the level of consumer price knowledge in an emerging economy, quite apart from the currency...

In many maintenance treatment trials, patients are first enrolled into an open treatmentbefore they are randomized into treatment groups. During this period, patients are followedover time with their responses measured longitudinally. This design is very common intoday's public health studies of...

This dissertation addresses regression models with missing covariate data. These methods are shown to be significant to public health research since they enable researchers to use a wider spectrum of data. Unbiased estimating equations are the focus of this dissertation, predominantly...

One difficulty in regression analysis for longitudinal data is that the outcomes are oftenmissing in a non-ignorable way (Little & Rubin, 1987). Likelihood based approaches todeal with non-ignorable missing outcomes can be divided into selection models and patternmixture models based on the way...