Sentence examples for observed purchase from inspiring English sources

In [10] the authors propose a mixture of non-homogeneous Poisson processes to discover the latent customer groups and conduct the soft-membership customer segmentation based on the dynamically observed purchase behavior.

The observed purchase (and therefore exposure) rate of 18.7 live chickens/household/year (38,370,343 purchases annually) matches government figures of ≈38,325,000 live chickens purchased annually in Hong Kong, (Government of Hong Kong, 2004).

Near-term super-bulls were observed purchasing more than 7,500 calls as high as the September 70 strike price for an average premium of $1.20 apiece.

We also used a modified approach to allow for the possibility that within the two week survey period of the Living Costs and Food Survey, observed purchases may differ from actual demand as stocks are either built up or run down, by treating quantity demanded as a latent variable.

The first exception is what economists call "Giffen goods," named for the Scottish economist, Sir Robert Giffen, who first observed these purchasing decisions and identified a notable exception.

The basic idea of our approach was to compute a maximum-likelihood fit of the model parameters given observed data purchased from in silico experiments.

Observing people purchase and use products in their daily lives avoids the artificiality of surveys and focus groups, contributing to product improvement.

The difference is due to two assumptions that differ from ours: (a) the principal always has the possibility to choose to observe inputs purchased by the agent; and (b) the timing of their model, especially the possibility of renegotiation after the agent chooses capital but before production occurs.

By observing what purchases and transactions a person makes, the corporate powers will hone their advertising to match the exact tastes of each and every one of us, eliminating the possibility for us to be introduced to new ideas or competing products.

RESPONDING to the surge in cigarettes sales via the Internet, New York State's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, recently observed that online purchases "present a significant threat to public health because they provide easy access to cheap cigarettes, which increases smoking rates, particularly among children".

In support of this possible explanation, we observed that those who purchased fast food daily also preferred to purchase diet drinks over sweetened drinks and this might highlight the children's motivation to cut back on calories in order to lose weight.