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Online Grocery Shopping: A Staple Of The Present -- And Maybe The Future?, Henry B. Chao
Online Grocery Shopping: A Staple Of The Present -- And Maybe The Future?, Henry B. Chao
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This project aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's food shopping tendencies, specifically focusing on the use of online grocers. It uses data collected by a team of researchers led out of Portland State University. This data consists of roughly 8000 surveys distributed starting in September of 2020. The survey asks respondents to discuss their demographics, household resources, and shopping tendencies.
In particular, this project wants to understand how inclined a respondent is to use online grocers based on their personal experience with COVID-19. To do this, the project uses a Latent Class Model (LCM) to classify …