| Article ID: | iaor1990834 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 355 |
| End Page Number: | 370 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1990 |
| Journal: | Technological Forecasting & Social Change |
| Authors: | Lavaraj U.A., Gore A.P. |
This paper attempts to interpret the standard statistical distributions in the innovation diffusion context. A simple rule is provided for classifying a statistical distribution as being an internal, an external, or a mixed influence model. Two distributions, suitable as flexible mixed influence models, are used to analyze several well-known data sets.