Modeling purchases as repeated events

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-502

  Bijwaard, Govert E ^a   Franses, Philip Hans ^a   Paap, Richard ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Counting process; Cox model; Purchase timing; Repeated events; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750527747     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500106000000242     Document Type: Article

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