In the presence of multicollinearity in data, the estimation of parameters or regression coefficients in marketing models by means of ordinary least squares may give inflated estimates with a high variance and wrong signs. The authors demonstrate the potential usefulness of the ridge regression analysis to handle multicollinearity in marketing data.
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