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Measures of association and correlation

One of the most important uses of statistical analysis is to investigate the associations or relationships between different variables. Understanding these relationships is of importance to an investigator for several reasons: It helps in the...

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

Author: Paul Fatti

February 14, 1995

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

Finding and interpreting patterns of numerical data

The simplest form of analysing data is to form survey tabulations. This is done by counting the number (and percentage) of people that fall in to the predefined categories of our questionnaire. The basic tool for the survey analyst is the cross...

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

Author: Paul Harris

February 14, 1995

The joint effect of several marketing activities

It is rarely possible to study the effect of several marketing factors simultaneously. New media, however, may provide such opportunities. Teleshopping does so, because here sales is linked directly to product, price, advertising, media plans, etc....

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: How Advertising Works And How Promotions Work

Author: Ole Stenvinkel Nilsson

June 15, 1991

Reading probabilities

From 1989 the National Readership Survey in Denmark is conducted by using the FRY-method and the CATI-technique. The reading probabilities are a very essential part in the FRY-model. The paper describes how they are calculated and how they are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Authors: Sigurd Bennike, Hanne Treu Olsen, Simon Ortmann

June 15, 1990

Goelette II

Goelette II, which succeeds to Goelette I, is a sales forecasting system for dispatching at the time of each issue MARIE-CLAIRE Group magazines into the distribution network of the "Presse en France". The primary objective of the system is to keep an...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Authors: Gilbert Haas, Gilles Santini

November 25, 1987

Election research and the climate of opinion

The main thesis of this paper is that we have taken a new step toward understanding democratic elections since the early seventies. We are now in a position to understand the influence of processes of public opinion on voting behavior. The new...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1986

Opinion polls: How crucial are statistical techniques to get the right figures?

The 1986 french "Elections legislatives" have pointed out that the figures out coming from opinion polls are highly dependant from the statistical techniques involved in the estimation process. Such influence can be observed at three levels : -...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Authors: Sophie Martin, Gilles Santini

Company: IPSOS

June 15, 1986

Pre-classifying consumers

This paper discusses current and future developments in the ways pre-classification can be used. The paper particularly examines the use of small area statistics linked to other data bases. A suggestion is also made as to how pre- classification can...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Classifying Consumers

Author: Bill Blyth

June 15, 1982