The authors extend the marketing literature on stochastic interpurchase-time models by allowing for purchase periodicities and unobserved heterogeneity in a proportional hazards mixture model. Their parsimonious framework builds on commonly used baseline hazard functions. They use the search-engine visits data to highlight the benefits of the proposed model.
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