Estimating unconstrained demand rate functions using customer choice sets

Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 438-454

  Haensel, Alwin ^a   Koole, Ger ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

choice sets; customer choice; data unconstraining; demand forecasting; EM algorithm; revenue management

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051994850     PISSN: 14766930     EISSN: 1477657X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/rpm.2010.1     Document Type: Article

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