A framework for measuring the importance of variables with applications to management research and decision models

Decision Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 595-625

  Soofi, Ehsan S ^a   Retzer, Joseph J ^b   Yasai Ardekani, Masoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Maritz Marketing Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; And planning strategy; Entropy; Linear regression; Logit analysis; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034551173     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2000.tb00936.x     Document Type: Article

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