In Japan, an article is sometimes sold with a questionnaire postcard. Accumulation of cards mailed back from customers can be regarded as an inditial response from two transfer elements in a series, purchasing articles and mailing cards. Successful fit of the data was obtained in this study by assuming that each intervening step is a process with a constant rate or its combination.
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