TY - BOOK AU - Aizaki,Hideo AU - Nakatani,Tomoaki AU - Sato,Kazuo TI - Stated preference methods using R T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC the R series SN - 9781439890479 (hardcover : acidfree paper) U1 - 000SA.08 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Boca Raton : PB - CRC Press, KW - Decision making KW - Data processing KW - Probabilities KW - R (Computer program language) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-233) and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Contingent valuation -- 3. Discrete choice experiments -- 4. Best-worst scaling -- 5. Basic operations in R-- Appendices-- Bibliography-- Index N2 - It is wonderful to finally see a book on how to use R to estimate the welfare measures commonly used in nonmarket valuation studies. The authors provide a set of R functions for some of the procedures most commonly used with stated preference data. Just as important, like almost all R functions, the user can see how these functions were coded as a way of understanding how they work and how new functions can be created. Using R opens up a very wide range of statistical procedures and visualization tools that will allow researchers to look at their stated preference data in new ways ER -