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Discriminant analysis

Discriminant Analysis Models are very similar to regression models, but differ in one important respect. In Discriminant Analysis the key variable of interest Y is now categorised (eg, Buyer = 1, Non-buyer = 0) rather than being continuous like...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Teach-In Seminar 1995: All You Ever Wanted To Know About Sampling, Statistics And Questionnaires

Author: Paul Harris

February 14, 1995

Marrying marketing research and virtual reality

Marketing researchers are constantly attuned to the methodology of data collection, understanding this facet of research on a number of dimensions: collection procedure validity, demand characteristics, length of field execution, and research cost....

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Information Technology- How Can Research Keep Up With The Peace Of Change

Author: Stephen P. Needel

January 1, 1995

Forecasting of elections in the world's largest democracy

Most Opinion Polls in the West, which attempt to forecast election results, rely on a representative sample of voters and a frank reply to the question: "If the Elections were held tomorrow, who would you vote for? It is the author's contention that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Partha Rakshit

September 1, 1994

Predicting retail sales with business panels

In this paper we concentrate on a forecasting model for the growth of sales. This model is very interesting, because predictions of the sales for specific shop types are very difficult to make. The models of costs and profits depend on the sales...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: The Changing Faces Of Panel Research

Author: Pieter Fris

June 15, 1994

Will the E.C./C.A.P. semi-compulsory set-aside scheme lead to a musical chairs dance among machinery manufacturers?

Combine harvester sales can be linked to total arable area, the changes in the cropping patterns, the number of holdings (and the changes in farm size), farmers’ incomes and expected priorities in their investment decisions. At New Holland we...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Author: Alfons-Pierre Ameel

June 15, 1994

The future at your fingertips

Television research is increasingly dominated by a need to predict ratings accurately. Prognoses of future ratings are of crucial importance for media planners producing or scheduling programmes, and selling or buying commercial time. Forecasts are...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Lex van Meurs

Company: GfK

May 1, 1994

A series of success? Modelling and predicting the success of a TV programme series

This paper will describe the work that has been carried out in support of a modelling approach aimed at predicting the overall performance of a TV programme series based on the audience data for the first transmission(s) of that series. It is well...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: David Brennan, Jeremy Wyndham

May 1, 1994

A new method for forecasting television programme audiences and schedule reach and frequency

In the changing audience behaviour situation, and when commercial television in Finland was moving over to a channel of its own, it was necessary to create a system, better than the mathematic models, that could forecast coming audience behaviour...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Marianne Makela, Jean Haukatsalo

Company: Viacom International Media Networks

May 1, 1994

Understanding and using likeability

This paper presents the results flowing from a large database (100 television commercials) developed over a 10 year period. The database measures the in-market awareness and likeability of all television commercials in South Africa, within two to...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Erik Du Plessis

May 1, 1994