Mario Mazzocchi is Associate Professor in Statistics and Economics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading, where he has previously served as a lecturer in Applied Economics and Consumer Behaviour. He is currently a consultant to FAO on nutrition policies, and has been appointed by the European Commission as a permanent member of the group of experts on the evaluation of the EU School Fruit Scheme. He is Associate Editor of the journal Food Policy. He has led research teams of the University of Bologna in four EC-funded research projects. He has published two books(Fat Economics and Statistics for Marketing and Consumer Research) and about 40 articles in international refereed papers on a variety of applied economics topics, including consumer research, policy evaluation, health economics, tourism economics, time series econometrics.

PART ONE: COLLECTING, PREPARING AND CHECKING THE DATAMeasurement, Errors and Data for Consumer ResearchSecondary Consumer DataPrimary Data CollectionData Preparation and Descriptive StatisticsPART TWO: SAMPLING, PROBABILITY AND INFERENCESamplingHypothesis TestingAnalysis of VariancePART THREE: RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VARIABLESCorrelation and RegressionAssociation, Log-linear Analysis and Canonical Correlation AnalysisFactor Analysis and Principal Component AnalysisPART FOUR: CLASSIFICATION AND SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUESDiscriminant AnalysisCluster AnalysisMultidimensional ScalingCorrespondence AnalysisPART FIVE: FURTHER METHODS IN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSISStructural Equation ModelsDiscrete Choice ModelsThe End (and Beyond)

Simple-to-follow, yet rigorous, practical guide to the statistical techniques used in marketing and consumer research.