Pricing Analytics : Models and Advanced Quantitative Techniques for Product Pricing

"The theme of this book is simple. The price, the number someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product, comes from data. Specifically, it comes from statistically modeling the data.This book gives the reader the statistical modeling tools needed to get the number to put on a product. But statistical modeling is not done in a vacuum. Economic and statistical principles and theory conjointly provide the background and framework for the models. Therefore, this bookemphasizes two interlocking components of modeling: economic theory and statistical principles.The economic theory component is sufficient to provide understanding of basic principles for pricing, especially about elasticities which measure the effects of pricing on key business metrics. Elasticity estimation is the goal of the statistical modeling so attention is paid to the concept and implications of elasticities.The statistical modeling componentis advanced and detailed covering choice (conjoint, discrete choice, MaxDiff) and sales data modeling. Experimental design principles, model estimation approaches, and analysis methodsare discussed and developed for choice models. Regression fundamentalshave beendeveloped for sales model specification and estimation and expanded for latent class analysis."--Provided by publisher.
Abstract: "The theme of this book is simple. The price, the number someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product, comes from data. Specifically, it comes from statistically modeling the data.This book gives the reader the statistical modeling tools needed to get the number to put on a product. But statistical modeling is not done in a vacuum. Economic and statistical principles and theory conjointly provide the background and framework for the models. Therefore, this bookemphasizes two interlocking components of modeling: economic theory and statistical principles.The economic theory component is sufficient to provide understanding of basic principles for pricing, especially about elasticities which measure the effects of pricing on key business metrics. Elasticity estimation is the goal of the statistical modeling so attention is paid to the concept and implications of elasticities.The statistical modeling componentis advanced and detailed covering choice (conjoint, discrete choice, MaxDiff) and sales data modeling. Experimental design principles, model estimation approaches, and analysis methodsare discussed and developed for choice models. Regression fundamentalshave beendeveloped for sales model specification and estimation and expanded for latent class analysis."--Provided by publisher