Research Article

Determinants of the Market Outlet Choice of Bamboo Culms (Yushania alpine) Producers in Banja District, Western Ethiopia

Table 4

Overall fitness of the model, probabilities, and correlation matrix of alternative market outlets.

VariableWholesalersRetailersProcessorsLocal traders

Marginal probability16.846.260.854.3
Joint prob (success)2.5
Joint prob (failure)2.2
Number of draws5
Log-likelihood−219.18
Wald (48)102.52
Prob 0.000
ρ1ρ2ρ3ρ4
ρ11.00
ρ20.07932711.00
ρ3−0.549−0.1741.00
ρ40.269−0.388−0.5331.00
Log-likelihood ratio:ρ21 = ρ11 = ρ41 = ρ32 = ρ42 = ρ43 = 0:Chi2 (6) = 29.68
prob = 0.001

, , and indicate the statistical significance at 1%, 5%, and 10%.