FUNCTIONAL FORMS AND THE DEMAND FOR MEAT IN THE UNITED STATES.

Many studies have been made on the demand function for meat, often using two functional forms. The first is the linear formulation in which the quantity demanded is assumed to be a linear function of the explanatory variables. The second is the logarithmic formulation in which all the variables are...

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Published in:	Review of Economics & Statistics Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 355 - 360
Main Author:	Hui-shyong Chang
Format:	Article
Published:	MIT Press Aug77
Subjects:	Economic demand Meat Meat industry Demand function Estimation theory Mathematical functions Mathematics Supply & demand Mathematical variables United States
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