The use of the statistics technique of multivariate analysis in dissertations and theses related to consumer behavior: a exploratory study / O uso de técnicas estatísticas multivariadas em dissertações e teses sobre o comportamento do consumidor: um estudo exploratório

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2008

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This dissertation has the purpose to evaluate the level of adaptation of the statistics technique of multivariate analysis in dissertations and theses related to Marketing, consumer behavior, during 1997 and 2006, introduced at Programs of Masters degree of the Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo and of the Escola de Administração da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. To reach this purpose, was organized a theoretical referential that would subsidize the discussion about the objectives of each technique application, and one that would subsidize the construction of an evaluation procedure starting with the attention to the subjacent premises to the use of these techniques. It was analyzed fifty-six studies of a hundred-ninety-six available on the thematic on the period, which used multivariate application techniques. Based on a consumer target, was delimited ninety-nine applications of that technique. The application of the techniques was observed at 100% of the cases where they were suited to the necessities of the research problems. However, taking the premise attention the results were negative: only 16.8% of the applications were suited, following all the premises required. The technique Factorial Exploration Analysis was the most used technique on the period, followed by Structures Equations Modeling and Regression Analysis. The most verified premises were the sensibility to the size of the sample and the data standardization; the least verified were multivariate normality, linearity, homoscedasticity, and autocorrelation. The results suggest the necessity of a higher commitment of the researchers on the verification of all theoretical precept of each technique application.

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multivariate analysis consumer behavior comportamento do consumidor análise quantitativa de dados análise multivariada quantitative analysis

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