Estimating New Product Demand from Biased Survey Data
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چکیده
Market researchers often conduct surveys asking respondents to estimate their future demand for new products. However, projected demand may exhibit systematic bias. For example, the more respondents like a product, the more they may exaggerate their demand. We found evidence of such exaggeration in a recent survey of demand for a potential new video product. In this paper, we develop a computationally tractable procedure that corrects for a general form of systematic bias in demand projections. This general form is characterized by a monotonic transformation of projected demand, and covers exaggeration bias as a special case.
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