Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 07:49:21 +0100
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From: Marta García-Granero
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Organization: Asesoría Bioestadística
Subject: Re: Stats qns
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Hi Sibusiso
I'm not really sure about what you are asking. Are you interested in
finding out if the sources differ (they don't give the same mean value
for all the products) or if they are consistent (if product nr. 3 has
the highest value in source 1, then source 2, 3... should give it also
higher values than the rest of products...).
First question would be a repeated measures ANOVA (or Friedman test if
data are non normally distributed). Second question would answered by
Kendall's test (warning: I'm NOT talking about Kendall's tau correlation
coefficient).
Both cases, you have a problem: those scattered missing data will
lower your sample size.
SM> I have market share data that has 83 cases (products) by 15
SM> sources of information (variables). So the whole matrix is
SM> populated with share information with the 15 sources of
SM> information being possible places where respondent would have
SM> heard about the product (before they used it).
SM> Now my simple task is to determine whether the shares differ
SM> depending on what the source of information was.
SM> Could anyone have an idea on how to approach this?
SM> The data looks something like this:
SM> info source1 info source2 info source3 info source4 info source5
SM> prod 1 9.67 6.04 2.14 5.10 6.00
SM> prod 2 3.00 6.67 . 0.00 6.25
SM> prod 3 31.17 30.16 0.00 30.00 29.27
SM> prod 4 3.75 0.74 0.00 1.00 3.75
SM> prod 5 25.00 28.33 . 5.00 15.00
SM> prod 6 8.38 2.87 3.14 2.05 2.00
SM> prod 7 . 2.50 0.00 0.00 10.00
SM> prod 8 22.25 17.87 10.04 17.40 18.92
SM> prod 9 6.00 6.83 2.83 1.52 3.67
SM> prod 10 6.33 2.74 3.80 2.73 3.18
SM> prod 11 . 2.00 . . .
SM> prod 12 . 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Regards,
Dr. Marta García-Granero,PhD mailto:biostatistics@terra.es
Statistician
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is certainly no substitute for the basic understanding of statistics
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