Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1
Executive summary 2
Purpose and scope of document 2
Methods 2
Results and Conclusions 2
Recommendations 3
Evaluate the design and data collection plan for the scanner study. 4
Descriptive information of the sample population 4
Description of the brand purchasers 8
Consumer of brand A: 10
Consumer of brand B: 11
Consumer of brand C: 11
Consumer of brand D: 11
Appropriate statistical tests 12
Identification of the best model that should be used for predictive purposes 12
Linear Regression 12
Discriminant Analysis 13
Logistic Regression 17
Comments on the variables that are the best predictors of buying behaviour 19
Linear Regression Model: 19
Logistic Regression Model: 19
What are the marketing strategy implications of your analysis in item 2? 20
Use the model found in item 2.2 and determines which brand is expected to be purchased 21
Linear Regression Model 21
Logistic Regression Model: 21
Analysis of the results: 22
Relations between variables in X2 22
Results and Conclusions 25
Recommendations 25
Executive summary
Purpose and scope of document
The purpose of this research was to find a model that would be able to predict buying behaviour of specific set of consumers towards four different brands.
Given the Dataset available, we tried to define the costumers for each brand and try to segment them so that a better prediction would result and to be able to provide useful and consistent managerial recommendations.
Methods
The research was first conducted through a descriptive study, with the data set collected trough a scanner. Moreover the scanner panel data has a household identifier containing information about demographics, tv and newspaper habits and other variables. The scanners used were placed in Points of Sale (grocery stores).
We used SPSS in its full capacities with the...