Computational models of consumer confidence from large-scale online attention data: Crowd-sourcing econometrics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Dong, Xianlei ^a   Bollen, Johan ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHINESE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE INDEX; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CROWDSOURCING; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ATTENTION; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROWDSOURCING; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84926368424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120039     Document Type: Article

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