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The application of survey methods to forecasting

With very few exceptions, empirical social research methods are being used primarily for purposes of predicting future events or behaviour. Sociological and economic analyses, even where on their face they appear to be nothing but fact finding or...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Authors: W. Horn, M. Barioux, Jacques de Felice, A. C. H. Kuypers, P. de Wolff, J. Saltmarsh

September 13, 1960

Comment on Mr. Norman Squirrel's paper read on Tuesday morning, September 13th

The purpose for which discriminant analysis was developed, and for which it tends to be used in practice, is to obtain a function discriminating between individuals belonging to two or more populations, which can then be used to allocate further...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

September 13, 1960

The application of survey methods to forecasting

With very few exceptions, empirical social research methods are being used primarily for purposes of predicting future events or behaviour. Sociological and economic analyses, even where on their face they appear to be nothing but fact finding or...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: Klaus von Dohnanyi

September 13, 1960

Closing session

During the last 12 months, there has been a flood of information about the European Free Trade Area. Lectures, meetings, discussions, articles and brochures have come in abundance. We have been told that it is important, inevitable, dangerous,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Authors: Wim J. de Jonge, D. Rettie

September 11, 1960

Group discussion on "Distribution research" and "Motivation research on the channels of distribution"

Group discussion on the papers "Distribution research" and "Motivation research on the channels of distribution" by Mr. de Vos and Mr. Deutsch.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Authors: A. B. de Vos, Emeric Deutsch, J. Ax, Bertil Neuman, David H. Pickard, M. B. Tarrant, David Lowe-Watson, C. F. A. Waterman

June 15, 1960

Advertising research (French)

This paper is intended to present the point of view of the users of Marketing Research. In this, particular instance, the user is a large oil company operating and marketing in Italy: Esso Standard Italiana. This is the case history of a very...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: Enrico Zanelli

Company: ESSO

June 15, 1960

Distribution research (French)

It is contended that this field of market research is relatively neglected by practitioners. In a period of rapid changes in the whole framework of distribution it is vital that our expertise should be as developed in this field as in the other. If...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: A. B. de Vos

June 15, 1960

Methods of brand image research

The second major application of brand, image study, to which the rest of this talk is devoted that of diagnosis of the brand situation in the market. Nobody is ever satisfied with their brand there is always room for improvement. What is the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: N. J. Squirrell

June 15, 1960

New possibility of comparative testing of advertisements

About two years ago at the Danish Gallup Institute, we began to work on the problem of finding new methods for comparative testing. We wanted to work out a technique, which would abolish "don't know" answers and, furthermore, separate the wording of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: J. Lorenz-Christensen

June 15, 1960