Assessing heterogeneity in discrete choice models using a dirichlet process prior

Review of Marketing Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-41

  Kim, Jin Gyo ^a   Menzefricke, Ulrich ^b   Feinberg, Fred M ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian Methods; Choice Models; Dirichlet Process; Heterogeneity; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 13444265147     PISSN: 15465616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1546-5616.1003     Document Type: Review

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