Tricked by truncation: Spurious duration dependence and social contagion in hazard models

Marketing Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-248

  van den Bulte, Christophe ^a   Iyengar, Raghuram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Duration dependence; Hazard models; New product diffusion; Social contagion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955055734     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1100.0615     Document Type: Article

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