Analyzing tourists' satisfaction: A multivariate ordered probit approach

Tourism Management

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-97

  Hasegawa, Hikaru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Gibbs sampling; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Metropolis Hastings (M H) algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70350721909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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