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| Title: | Application of nonparametric discriminant analysis for assessing food safety issues of Caribbean imports |
| Authors: | Abebe, Asheber
Yin, Shuxin |
| Authors (Email): | Abebe, Asheber (abebeas@auburn.edu)
Yin, Shuxin (yinshux@auburn.edu) |
| Editors: | Badrie, Neela |
| Editors (Email): | Badrie, Neela (neela.badrie@sta.uwi.edu) |
| Keywords: | transvariation
projection pursuit
misclassification error rate
food detention |
| JEL Codes: | C38 |
| Issue Date: | 2010-09 |
| Series/Report no.: | Proceedings of the West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference
28 |
| Abstract: | Caribbean food imports often face detentions and refusals by the US resulting in a major loss of income. In this paper, we consider a classification procedure based on transvariation probabilities to correctly identify cases that lead to food detention. This is based upon several background variables on fourteen Latin American and Caribbean countries. A method for selecting variables according to their contribution towards predicting detention is given. For our particular sample, the selection method chose foreign direct investment as the variable that carried the most information in determining food detention. After removing variables that were non-informative about food detention status, a leave-one-out cross-validation shows that methods based on transvariation probabilities were superior to classical methods in predicting food detention. |
| Notes: | Bridgetown, Barbados 6th-10th July, 2009 |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/122882 |
| Identifiers: | 978-976-634-010-0 |
| Institution/Association: | Caribbean Agro-Economic Society>28th West Indies Agricultural Economic Conference/2009 Barbados National Agricultural Conference, July 2009, Barbados |
| Total Pages: | 10 |
| Collections: | 28th West Indies Agricultural Economic Conference/2009 Barbados National Agricultural Conference, July 2009, Barbados
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