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On the possibility of predicting ratings reliably

The paper reports on a secondary analysis of Australian People Meter data, using trend-series data analysis techniques. It places particular emphasis on deriving a neural network model of television audience estimates. The research program has been...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Author: Ian Garland

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1996

A database approach to the analysis of complex qualitative research data

It is argued in this paper that the use of text-databases implies a cost-effective and rational use of transcripts from broadly based qualitative studies. Special attention is drawn to the possibility of querying the data by means of an automatically...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Simon Ulrik Kragh

September 1, 1994

ABC's people & products marketing & research services system

This paper is divided into three parts so as to present all the data and analysis used thus far in assessing the validity and reliability of this proposed system. Part I presents the thinking that went into the development of this system with some...

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

Author: Richard Montesano

May 1, 1994

ANALYST

This paper describes ANALYST, a knowledge-based system for analyzing panel data. ANALYST supports product managers and market researchers in analyzing market data, helping them in the primary problems of marketing decision making: detecting...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC/AFM Symposium 1993: Information Based Decision Making In Marketing

Authors: Alf Zimmer, Josef F. Krems, Stefan Krischker, Armin Hartinger, Heinz Wontorra

June 15, 1993

New technology, new paradigms, and the attributional cloak: Qualitative research shall go to the (scientific) ball

Within market research, as in the social sciences generally, qualitative research is increasingly recognised as the only possible route to certain kinds of information. We argue that, rather than grafting isolated pieces of new technology onto the...

Catalogue: Qualitative Research 1993: A Critical Review Of Methods And Applications

Authors: Peter Stratton, Roger Sivlter

June 15, 1993

Quality methods, quality results! An axiom

Since 1963 the U.S. Committee on Nationwide Television Audience Measurement (CONTAM) has engaged in methodological research. The purpose has been to understand and improve television audience measurement in order to increase the accuracy and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Nicholas P. Schiavone

June 15, 1992

(Data + data) × intelligence= Information

This paper will serve to re-emphasise several of the points made by the previous speaker, as well as revisiting other aspects of data interpretation in the pharmaceutical industry. It examines several of the more important areas where data...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1991: 1993 And Beyond

Author: Charles Galsworthy

June 15, 1991

Preventing childhood diseases

This paper is a case history, describing research carried out for the Department of Health in England. The research was designed to find out why, when safe and effective vaccines were available, many children in our society remained unprotected by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Authors: Jenny Turtle, Martin van Staveren

June 15, 1991

Information theory versus factor analysis in typology

Values and lifestyles are taking on an increasingly significant role in, product communication and environment design. Social, economic, demographic, anthropological changes lead to the differentiation of products and services that are targeted to a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Authors: Akin Alyanak, Erkani Keyman

September 1, 1990