Multivariate Data Analysis Conjoint Analysis
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What Is Conjoint Analysis?
Conjoint to edit Master subtitle style Click analysis is a statistical technique used in market research to determine how people value different features that make up an individual product or service.
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Important Terminology
Factor Level Profile Utility Part-Worth
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Understanding the Conjoint Analysis
Conjoint analysis take these attributes and level description of product/services by asking people to make a number of choices between different product
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EXAMPLE:- Would you choose Phone A or Phone B
Weight Battery life price Phone A 200g 21hours Rs 5000 Phone B 120g 10 hours Rs 8000 6/5/12
Researcher can work out numerically (from
the responses)have valuable each of the level is relative others around it- this value is known as the utility of the level see which attribute make have the greatest impact in making a choice.
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We can also compare across attributes to
12 10 8 Utilies value for each level of weight 6 Relative importance of attribute 4 2 0
Usages of Conjoint Analysis
Individual Consumer Segment Level Across Segment
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Designing a Conjoint Analysis
Stage 1
Formulation of the Problem
Stage 2
Construct the stimuli
Stage 3
Decide on the form of input
Stage 4
Select the conjoint procedure 6/5/12
A Practical Example of Conjoint Analysis
Q: Would you prefer an airline travel with A
or B?
A: regular seats, that costs $400 and takes 5 hours. B: costs $700 has extra-wide seats and takes 3hours.
Extending this, we see that if seat comfort,
Choic e 1 Seat Pri Comfort ce Extra widea$70 Wide 070 Extra-Extra $7$7 2 0 wideWide 0000 $ 3 ExtrExtra wideaWide $40 4 EExtra widextra- 000 $4$ Wide $4000 00
price and duration are 6 the only relevant 3hrHou 5rs 5hr attributes, there are potentially eight travel 7 Hours 8 33hr choices.
Hours
Duratio n 5hr Hours
Choic e 5
Seat Pri Duratio Comfort ce n Regular 5hr5 $7 lar Hours 00 RRegularegu $700 33hr 00 lar $700 Hours ReRegulargu 5hr $400 lar Hours $400 RegRegularu $4$4 3 lar 0000 H3hrour s
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Given the above alternatives: Product 4 is very likely the most preferred choice. Product 5 is probably the least preferred product. The preference for the other choices is determined by
what is important to that individual.
Conjoint analysis can be used to determine: Relative importance of each attribute, attribute level,
and combinations of attributes.
If the most preferable product is not feasible for some
reason, identify the next most preferred alternative.
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demographics be able to identify market segments for
Utility Value
A traveler may like the comfort and arrival
time of a particular travel, but reject purchase due to the cost.
In this case, price has a high utility value.
Utility can be defined as a number which
represents the value that consumers place on an attribute. Utilit Pric
Utility represents the relative "worth" of the $4 6
00 attribute. $ 0 $700 700 5 5 5
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Types of Conjoint Analysis
Adaptive Conjoint Analysis (ACA) Choice Based Conjoint (CBC) Full profile Conjoint Analysis
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Advantage of Conjoint Analysis
Estimates psychological tradeoffs
that consumers make when evaluating several attributes together
Measures preferences at the
individual level
Uncovers real or hidden drivers
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Realistic choice or shopping task Able to use physical objects If appropriately designed, the
ability to model interactions between attributes can be used to develop needs based segmentation
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Limitation of Conjoint Analysis
Designing conjoint studies can be
complex
With too many options, respondents
resort to simplification strategies
Respondents are unable to articulate
attitudes toward new categories, or may feel forced to think about issues they would otherwise not give much thought to
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Poorly designed studies may over-
value emotional/preference variables and undervalue concrete variables
Does not take into account the
number items per purchase so it can give a poor reading of market share
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