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What's new in Latin America?

It is very difficult for the headquarters of multinational corporations, for offshore firms without local branches, or for market research institutes without local associates, to evaluate the market research undertaken in the Latin American region,...

Catalogue: Latin America 1991: Exchanging Experiences

Author: Mónica La Madrid

May 5, 1991

The use of conjoint analysis in forecasting and price elasticity for a new pharmaceutical entry

This paper presents a quantitative marketing research survey through the use of multivariate techniques to address several pre-launch issues of a new product. The main emphasis in the analysis is the use of the conjoint model to determine the actual...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: Mila C. Montemayor-Orr

June 15, 1987

Multivariate analysis of market research data

Most multivariate techniques require an immense number of calculations which, whilst not beyond the resources of clerks and adding machines, are more quickly and economically carried out by computer. It is not my intention in this chapter to dwell at...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: C. Holmes

August 1, 1986

The personalisation of the institution in order to establish the images of the major British banks

This paper describes the experimental application to the identification of bank images of a technique previously used to differentiate between consumer goods such as lagers and perfumes where differences were subtle. The approach is based on the use...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Author: John F. Swift

June 15, 1982

Measuring editorial needs

In November 1978 a new tabloid newspaper was launched in the Midlands and Northern areas of England. It was positioned directly against existing popular newspapers. Marplan, on behalf of The Sun, monitored its launch in order to predict its sales...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: John Clemens

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

November 1, 1979

Multivariate perspectives

This paper is concerned with perspectives on the use of multivariate techniques in marketing. The marketing concept has taught us to define markets and products in terms of human needs. This has fostered two fundamental segmentation stratagems:...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: Joseph R. Murphy

March 1, 1979

A method for processing Kelly Grids

The classic approach to the construction of a questionnaire containing products perception items involves three phases: - a qualitative phase; - a data reduction phase; - the definitive questionnaire is then drawn up.This paper describes a method...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Authors: Joseph Lion, Jacques Braun

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

The role and function of multivariate methods of data analysis in marketing information systems

The purpose of this communication is to analyse the role and the function of statistical methods in the development of Marketing Information Systems. This analysis will be conducted at two main levels: 1. Integration of the bank of statistical...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Authors: Yves Evrard, Patrick Le Maire

June 15, 1977