Pete Abilla

Member since: Dec 12th, 2006

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What is a Taguchi test? (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Dec 17th 2006 11:23PM Jason,

You'll want to look at Taguchi's Paper Airplane excercise, to get a more lay-man's explanation on Taguchi's Design of Experiments.

Also, having done quantitative marketing (database marketing for some time), below is a good introduction:

* Classification: classification techniques are used to segment markets, one of the central tasks of marketing. They are also used to make segmentation schemes useful, by allowing you to classify respondents into segments. Classification techniques include clustering, CHAID, CART, and discriminant analysis.

* Prediction: the ability to accurately predict behavior not only makes you more confident about decisions, but also implies an understanding of the processes at work. Regression in all its shapes and forms remains the central workhorse of social science research. It is central to techniques like conjoint and discrete-choice analysis.

* Exploration and data reduction: sometimes we have more information than we know what to do with and need to summarize relationships in data and provide perspective. For this, we use techniques like principal component analysis and discriminant analysis.

Why digg is destined for failure (Download Squad)

Dec 12th 2006 12:34PM Digg is an experiment in social choice and game theory. The behavior we see is fully explained by Game Theory. No matter how social one would like to be, people are still, at bottom, self-interested.