Research Article

Understanding Customer Value in the Mobile Internet Era

Table 2

The description of variables in the mathematical model.

Variable nameDescription

CV(i)The value of the ith customer in the statistical period
PV(i)Purchase value of the ith customer in the statistical period
IV(i)Interactive value of the ith customer in the statistical period
MDV(i)Marketing diffusion value of the ith customer in the statistical period
CMV(i)Comment value of the ith customer in the statistical period
SV(i)Sharing value of the ith customer in the statistical period
TRD(i)Transaction relationship duration of the ith customer in the statistical period
PF(i)Purchase frequency of the ith customer in the statistical period
APM(i)Average consumption amount of the ith customer in the statistical period
LCT(i)Interval between the ith customer’s latest comments in the statistical period
CF(i)Frequency of comments made by the ith customer during the statistical period
FR(i)The favorable rate of the ith customer’s comments during the statistical period
CQ(i)The quality of comments made by the ith customer during the statistical period
LST(i)The latest sharing interval of the ith customer in the social network during the statistical period
SW(i)The ith customer’s sharing willingness in the social network during the statistical period
SF(i)The ith customer’s sharing frequency in the social network during the statistical period
PR(i)PageRank value of the ith customer during the statistical period
DC(i)Degree centrality value of the ith customer during the statistical period
BC(i)Betweenness centrality value of the ith customer during the statistical period
αThe weight of customer purchase value
βThe weight of customer interactive value
γThe weight of customer marketing diffusion value