Guidelines for treating unobserved heterogeneity in tourism research: A comment on Marques and Reis (2015)

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 279-284

  Sarstedt, Marko ^a,b   Ringle, Christian M ^b,c   Gudergan, Siegfried P ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDELINE; HETEROGENEITY; RESEARCH WORK; TOURISM;

EID: 84951187720     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2015.10.006     Document Type: Note

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