The authors propose an improved model for estimating audience exposure to network television, and test this model against the best previously reported models. The model involves a new method for estimating a beta binomial distribution, which is used to model the frequency distribution of exposure. The new estimation procedure takes explicitly into account several characteristics specific to network television.
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