A Study of Online Review Promptness in a B2C System

Table 6

Variables and explanations.

Type	Variable	Notation	Explanation
Dependent	Time interval	TI	Time interval between purchase and review behavior.
Independent	Rating	Rating	The score rated by the reviewer.
	Membership	Member	Membership of an online reviewer.
	map(Quality)	Quality	1 for product quality feature reviewed, otherwise 0.
	map(Function)	Function	1 for product function feature reviewed, otherwise 0.
	map(Cost)	Cost	1 for cost feature reviewed, otherwise 0.
	map(Service)	Service	1 for service feature reviewed, otherwise 0.