Non-Parametric Tests of Consumer Behaviour

DOI10.2307/2296957zbMath0515.90023OpenAlexW2000804318MaRDI QIDQ3662955

Hal R. Varian

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/76b50f2663a24e60e9d2a42c43564d899623286f

zbMATH Keywords

consistencyseparabilityhomotheticitymaximizationconsumer behaviourdemand datanoparametric tests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Group preferences (91B10) Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42)

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