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On R's CLVTools package documentation, there's a sentence referring to the pareto/NBD model

I'm working with the BG/NBD model not the pareto/NBD model. I'd like to understand if I can interpret the parameters of this model in a similar way to the documentation on the pareto/NBD model.

From that link above on the Pareto/NBD model:

For the standardPareto/NBD model, we get 4 parameters , , and . where , represent the shape and scale parameterof the gamma distribution that determines the purchase rate and , of the attrition rate across individualcustomers. / can be interpreted as the mean purchase and / as the mean attrition rate

The BG/NBD model I'm working with also returns 4 parameters:

  • r: shape parameter of the Gamma distribution of the purchase process.
  • alpha: scale parameter of the Gamma distribution of the purchase process.
  • a: shape parameter of the Beta distribution of the dropout process.
  • b: shape parameter of the Beta distribution of the dropout process.

The first two of these, , , are the same as for the Pareto/NBD model. So I'm assuming that I can interpret those two in the same way? "/ can be interpreted as the mean purchase (rate)"?

My question is about the remaining two parameters of the BG/NBD model, a and b. Can I calculate the mean attrition rate in a similar manner by dividing one over the other?

Doug Fir
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In BG/NBD, individual attrition is defined by "p", which follows a beta distribution. The mean of the beta distribution is a/(a+b). Hope this help. BG/NBD was created by Fader, Hardie, and Lee. Please attribute the credit correctly in the future.

sonicking
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