Discrete Attribute Models of Brand Switching
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Marketing Science
- Vol. 5 (4) , 350-371
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.5.4.350
Abstract
A formal analysis is presented for three general classes of discrete attribute models of brand switching. The analysis focuses on the role of feature importance in specifying transition probabilities. A number of formal properties based on ordinal relations between transition probabilities are defined and each class of models is shown to satisfy a unique subset of the properties. The analytic results reveal important relations between the functional forms of model equations and the managerially-oriented interpretations that are given to the variables in those equations.Keywords
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