Journal of Marketing Research Vol. XXXVII (November 2000), 410–426 *Charles Abramson is a lecturer, College of Business Administration, California State University, Long Beach (e-mail: [email protected]). Rick L. Andrews is an associate professor, Department of Business Administration, University of Delaware (e-mail: [email protected]). Imran S. Currim is Corporate Partners Research Scholar an...

In this paper, we examine the problem of estimating the sensitive characteristics and behaviors in a multinomial randomized response model using Bayesian approach. We derived a posterior distribution for parameter of interest for multinomial randomized response model. Based on the posterior distribution, we also calculated a credible intervals and mean squared error (MSE). We finally compare th...

We study the cutoff phenomenon for generalized riffle shuffles where, at each step, the deck of cards is cut into a random number of packs of multinomial sizes which are then riffled together.

In this paper, we present our system developed for the SemEval 2016 Task 11: Complex Word Identification. Our team achieved the 3rd place among 21 participants. Our systems ranked 4th and 13th among 42 submitted systems. We proposed multiple features suitable for complex word identification, evaluated them, and discussed their properties. According to the results of our experiments, our final s...

A classical theorem of Rényi [26] for the number of empty boxes, denoted by μ0(n,M), in a sequence of n random allocations of indistinguishable balls into M boxes with equal probability 1/M , can be stated as follows: If the variance of μ0(n,M) tends to infinity with n then μ0(n,M) is asymptotically normally distributed. This result, seldom stated in this form in the literature, was proved by R...

Consumers often know what kind of product they wish to purchase, but do not know which speci...c variant best ...ts their needs, so consumers shop around. As a result, a consumer may ...nd an acceptable product in one store but nevertheless purchase nothing, opting to continue searching for an even better product. We study three versions of the retail assortment problem: a traditional, no-searc...

SUMMARY Fisher's method of maximum likelihood breaks down when applied to the problem of estimating the five parameters of a mixture of two normal densities from a continuous random sample of size n. The two alternatives considered here are moment estimates on the one hand, and multinomial maximum likelihood and minimum x 2 estimates obtained by grouping the underlying variable on the other. Th...

A typical assumption of electoral models of party competition is that parties adopt policy positions so as to maximize expected vote share. Here we use Euro-barometer survey data and European elite-study data from 1979 for the Netherlands and Germany to construct a stochastic model of voter response, based on multinomial probit estimation. For each of these countries, we estimate a pure spatial...

In this note we consider unimodality problems of sequences of multinomial coefficients and symmetric functions. The results presented here generalize our early results for binomial coefficients. We also give an answer to a question of Sagan about strong q-log-concavity of certain sequences of symmetric functions, which can unify many known results for q-binomial coefficients and q-Stirling numb...