Quantitative Methods in Tourism : A Handbook / Rodolfo Baggio, Jane Klobas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baggio, Rodolfo, Author.

Klobas, Jane, Author.

Series:

Aspects of tourism ; 79.

Aspects of Tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Tourism--Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this revised second edition, Baggio and Klobas build upon the work of their previous volume, offering a presentation of quantitative research methods for tourism researchers. This accessible and rigorous guide goes beyond the approaches usually covered in introductory textbooks on quantitative methods to consider useful techniques for statistical inquiry into tourism matters of all but the most econometrically complex kind. The first part of the book concerns common issues in statistical analysis of data and the most widely-used techniques, while the second part describes and discusses several newer and less common approaches to data analysis that are valuable for tourism researchers and analysts. Updates to the second edition include: • a new chapter on “Big Data” • consideration of data screening and cleaning • the use of similarity and diversity indexes for comparing samples • observations about the partial least squares (PLS) approach to path modelling • a new section on multi-group structural equation modelling • a new section on common method variance and its treatment • revised and updated section on software • fully updated references and examples

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction

Introduction to Part 1

1. The Nature of Data in Tourism

2. Testing Hypotheses and Comparing Samples

3. Data Reduction

4. Model Building

5. Time-Dependent Phenomena and Forecasting

Introduction to Part 2

6. Maximum Likelihood Estimation

7. Monte Carlo Methods

8. Big Data

9. Simulations and Agent-Based Modelling Appendix: Software Programs

Appendix: Software Programs

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781845416218

184541621X

9781845416201

1845416201

OCLC:

1138526044