Accessible and reader-friendly this handbook promotes the curent overarching business philosophy of customer//market focus by emphasizing the need for market research to provide the insights required for making decisions. This book identifies such troubling current trends as biased sample answers on long questionnaires, and `professionals' whose job is to skew focus group responses. Top international researchers from both academia and practice have come together here to provide a broad range of ideas and applications.

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Structural Equation Modeling

Structural Equation Modeling

VictoriaSavaleiUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Peter M.BentlerUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a tool for analyzing multivariate data that has been long known in marketing to be especially appropriate for theory testing (e.g., Bagozzi, 1980). Structural equation models go beyond ordinary regression models to incorporate multiple independent and ...

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