Statistics for Marketing and Consumer Research [Hardcover]

Balancing simplicity with technical rigour, this practical guide to the statistical techniques essential to research in marketing and related fields, describes each methods as well as showing how they are applied. Real data sets and detailed guidance on the use of appropriate software is included along with discussion of:

- Sampling

- Data management an statistical packages

- Hypothesis testing

- Cluster analysis

- Structural equation modelling

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)