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gravity model
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attractiveness
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[geography]
A model that assumes that the influence of phenomena or populations on each other varies inversely with the distance between them. -
[business]
The idea that the probability of a given consumer visiting and purchasing at a given site is some function of the distance to that site, the site's attractiveness, and the distance and attractiveness of competing sites.
