Estimation of consumer demand with stock-out based substitution: An application to vending machine products

Marketing Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 406-423

  Anupindi, Ravi ^a   Dada, Maqbool ^b   Gupta, Sachin ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand Estimation; EM Algorithm; Inventory Management; Maximum Likelihood; Poisson; Stock outs; Substitution; Vending

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032237694     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.17.4.406     Document Type: Article

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