Bias and systematic change in the parameter estimates of macro-level diffusion models

Marketing Science

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 338-353

  Van Den Bulte, Christophe ^a   Lilien, Gary L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diffusion; Estimation and other statistical techniques; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031283664     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.16.4.338     Document Type: Article

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