"This book outlines the sources, strengths, and weaknesses of a broad array of key marketing metrics. How to harness those data for insight is explained. Most importantly, how to act on this insight-how to apply it not only in planning campaigns but also in measuring their impact, correcting...

Resource Allocation -- Cluster Analysis -- Conjoint Analysis -- Linear Regression -- Customer Lifetime Value -- Marketing Experiments -- Paid Search Advertising -- Text Analytics -- Logistic Regression -- Recommendation Systems -- Automation of Marketing Models -- Implementing Marketing Analytics.

Two recent studies of manufacturer and retailer profitability in the food industry have raised questions about whether the widely cited, but empirically untested, shift of power from manufacturers to retailers has really occurred. Has the marketing community been operating under a misconception...

Composite variables are those that may be mathematically decomposed into additive and/or multiplicative component variables. Several researchers have noted that the relationship between a composite variable and its components may be a mathematical artifact, but the effect of their inclusion as...