The predictability of consumer visitation patterns

We consider hundreds of thousands of individual economic transactions to ask: how predictable are consumers in their merchant visitation patterns? Our results suggest that, in the long-run, much of our seemingly elective activity is actually highly predictable. Notwithstanding a wide range of indivi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Llorente, Alejandro, Cebrian, Manuel, Moro, Esteban, Krumme, Katherine Ann, Pentland, Alex Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88207
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983