Increasingly, conjoint analysts are being asked to design and analyze studies involving large numbers of attributes and/or attribute levels. Various types of approaches, including attribute bridging, Adaptive Conjoint Analysis, and hybrid models have been proposed to deal with the problem. This...

Increasingly, researchers in marketing are recognizing the “lability” of attribute importance weights derived from measurement techniques, such as conjoint analysis. As has been suggested by Simonson and Tversky, attribute importance weights can be sensitive to competitive product context...

Recently, a number of articles have appeared in the marketing literature dealing with (single) product design optimization. The present paper represents a start toward extending this research to product line decisions. We first formulate two versions of the problem and describe their various...

This paper describes a case application of SIMOPT, a product positioning model and decision support system.

Marketing Research and Modeling addresses state of the art developments including new techniques and methodologies by leading experts in marketing and marketing research. This work emphasizes new developments in Bayesian Decision Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling,...

Over the last decade, numerous methods for the multidimensional scaling (MDS) of perceptions and preferences have been applied by researchers in marketing. However, one notable gap in MDS methodology has been the lack of suitable models for analyzing inherently asymmetric data relationships....