Balancing simplicity with technical rigour, this practical guide to the statistical techniques essential to research in marketing and related fields, describes each method as well as showing how they are applied.   The book is accompanied by two real data sets to replicate examples and with exercises to solve, as well as detailed guidance on the use of appropriate software including:   - 750 powerpoint slides with lecture notes and step-by-step guides to run analyses in SPSS (also includes screenshots) - 136 multiple choice questions for tests   This is augmented by in-depth discussion of topics including:   - Sampling - Data management and statistical packages - Hypothesis testing - Cluster analysis - Structural equation modelling
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Simple-to-follow, yet rigorous, practical guide to the statistical techniques used in marketing and consumer research.
PART ONE: COLLECTING, PREPARING AND CHECKING THE DATA Measurement, Errors and Data for Consumer Research Secondary Consumer Data Primary Data Collection Data Preparation and Descriptive Statistics PART TWO: SAMPLING, PROBABILITY AND INFERENCE Sampling Hypothesis Testing Analysis of Variance PART THREE: RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VARIABLES Correlation and Regression Association, Log-linear Analysis and Canonical Correlation Analysis Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis PART FOUR: CLASSIFICATION AND SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES Discriminant Analysis Cluster Analysis Multidimensional Scaling Correspondence Analysis PART FIVE: FURTHER METHODS IN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS Structural Equation Models Discrete Choice Models The End (and Beyond)
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ISBN
9781412911214
Publisert
2008-05-22
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Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
860 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
432

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Mario Mazzocchi is Associate Professor in Statistics and Economics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading, where he has previously served as a lecturer in Applied Economics and Consumer Behaviour. He is currently a consultant to FAO on nutrition policies, and has been appointed by the European Commission as a permanent member of the group of experts on the evaluation of the EU School Fruit Scheme. He is Associate Editor of the journal Food Policy. He has led research teams of the University of Bologna in four EC-funded research projects. He has published two books(Fat Economics and Statistics for Marketing and Consumer Research) and about 40 articles in international refereed papers on a variety of applied economics topics, including consumer research, policy evaluation, health economics, tourism economics, time series econometrics.