Examining the latent factor structure of a hypothetical cigarette purchase task among pregnant women.

ABSTRACT: The cigarette purchase task (CPT) is a valid behavioral-economic measure of demand that has smokers estimate hypothetical cigarette consumption under a range of escalating prices. The task involves no experimenter exposure of participants to smoking. CPT demand is measured in terms of five indices: intensity (cigarettes consumed at $0), O_max (largest expenditure), Pmax (price associated with peak expenditure), breakpoint (the first price at which consumption is 0), and elasticity (rate at which consumption changes as a function of increasing price). Out of concern for collinearity, prior studies investigated a more parsimonious CPT latent-factor structure for these derived indices consisting of two factors. The present study examined whether the same two latent-fac

SUBMITTER: Evemy CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10900909 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature