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Component analysis in clustering

The last few years have seen a great development of the use of clustering in market research, either for specific operations or as part of more universal operations. These two types of approach - specific or universal - meet different objectives and...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Daniel Caumont

Company: Nestlé

February 1, 1978

Sense and non-sense in cluster analysis

Cluster analysis has become a very popular multivariate method in market research during the last five to seven years. Its wide propagation does this method probably owe to the simplicity of its basic ideas. But contrary to this simplicity stand some...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Gunda Opfer

February 1, 1978

Factor analysis

The paper shows how different versions of factor analysis applied to the same data can lead to different results. In contrast, factor analyses of data which differ can lead to the same results. These are two major limitations of the technique. Two...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: Martin Alan Collins, Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, Gerald J. Goodhardt

June 15, 1976

The perception of media contents by producers and audience

The present study shows a technique for studying the discrepancy between audience's and source's perception of communication. In the process of doing so findings are presented from a study of the perception of TV programs by the audience and by the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Flemming Hansen

Company: AIM Create

June 15, 1976

Language, the press and political attitudes

Canada’s communications experience is of interest to other heterogeneous societies, especially where there are vertical cleavages such as language and region. The influence of language in the communications flow is highly visible, it means that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Arthur Siegel

August 1, 1975

Practical applications of segmentation and typology in the banking industry

The present paper can be divided in two parts. The first one will include: - a definition of Segmentation and Typology concepts; - a short description of these techniques; - a positioning of these techniques among the whole of multidimensional...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: The Use Of Market Research In The Financial Fields

Author: Jean Quatresooz

February 1, 1975

Clustering by product usage

Segmentation is one of several multivariate analysis methods which can be applied to market research data; it can be carried out in several ways. This paper discusses briefly some of the possible techniques. The purposes of segmentation which we have...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Simon Broadbent, Susanna Segnit

September 1, 1974

Improving cluster techniques

A lot has been said and published on the topic of segmentation, typology or cluster analysis. One possible reason for this activity is that the approach is very plausible and even simple at the first glance. On the one hand the concept of "type" is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: D. E. Freitag

Company: GfK

September 1, 1974

New methods for new research

The objective of this paper is to explain the principles of several analytical methods (Part 2) and how they can be used (Part 3), as shown by the last two years of experience with Programs for Structuring Data (P.S.D.) that are available on the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Authors: Patrice Bertier, Jean-Marie Bouroche

June 15, 1972