Recently, Grover and Srinivasan developed a latent-class-based approach to analyze market structure by using brand-switching data. The authors provide an iterative maximum likelihood procedure for estimating parameters of a model that incorporates heterogeneity within segments. Using the same dataset, they compare the results obtained by incorporating heterogeneity in two different ways.
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