The dichotomous nature of purchase decisions and the importance of a threshold concept in explaining reactions to stimuli require statistical techniques other than traditional regression analysis for estimating the parameters. The multivariate probit technique meets the requirements of a threshold decision model. An empirical example is combined with the basic description of the model.
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