Anticipations and Purchases (eBook)

An Analysis of Consumer Behavior

Francis Thomas Juster (Autor)

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2015
322 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7969-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The author is concerned with whether or not surveys of consumer anticipations can improve predictions of purchase behavior relative to predictions that use only objective variables obtainable at the same date. The basic objective of the study is improved predictions of changes over time.Originally published in 1964.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Accuracy and precision • Aggregate income • Aggregation problem • Almost surely • Bayesian probability • Behavioral Economics • Bias of an estimator • Calculation • Ceteris paribus • Chi-squared test • coefficient • Commodity • Consumer Debt • Consumers Union • Consumption function • Correlation and dependence • correlation coefficient • Cross-Sectional Data • debt • Dummy variable (statistics) • Durable good • economic forecasting • Economics • Efficiency • Equal Weight • error • Error Term • estimation • expected value • Explained variation • Extrapolation • Forecast Error • Forecast period (finance) • F-Test • General Linear Model • Great Divergence • head of household • High Fidelity • Household • income • inefficiency • inference • Joint probability distribution • linear regression • Long run and short run • Marginal return • Market Value • multivariate analysis • Net Worth • Normal distribution • Observational error • obsolescence • optimism • Ownership (psychology) • Partial correlation • Pearson's chi-squared test • Percentage point • permanent income hypothesis • pessimism • Population proportion • Prediction • Predictive Modelling • Preference (economics) • Probability • Probability Distribution • Probability Theory • Proportionality (mathematics) • Purchase Rate • Ranking (information retrieval) • Rates (tax) • Response bias • Sample Size • sampling bias • sampling error • Sampling (Statistics) • Scale In • seasonal adjustment • Simple Linear Regression • Skewness • Spurious relationship • standard deviation • statistical significance • Stepwise regression • Student's t-test • SUBGROUP • substitution effect • summary statistics • Tax • test statistic • Timeliness • Time Series • Total Cost • Transfer payment • Type I and type II errors • use value • Utilization • Variable (mathematics) • Variance • Weighted arithmetic mean • weighting
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7969-8 / 1400879698
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7969-4 / 9781400879694