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• Coverpage
• Series Editor
• Titlepage
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Examples
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part 1: The Analysis of Data Introduction to Part 1
• Introduction to Part 1
• 1 The Nature of Data in Tourism
• Introduction
• Data: A Taxonomy
• Data Quality
• Data Harmonization, Standards and Collaboration
• Concluding Remarks
• Sources of Secondary Tourism Data
• 2 Testing Hypotheses
• Introduction
• Parametric and Non-parametric Tests
• Effect Size and Statistical Power
• Sample Size and Significance
• A Summary of Statistical Tests
• 3 Data Analysis
• Introduction
• Factor Analysis
• Cluster Analysis
• Multidimensional Scaling and Correspondence Analysis
• 4 Model Building
• Simple Regression
• Multiple Regression
• Logistic Regression
• Structural Equation Modeling
• Mediation and Moderation in Model Building
• Multi-Level Modeling
• 5 Time-dependent Phenomena and Forecasting
• Introduction
• Basic Concepts of Time Series
• Filtering Techniques
• Comparing Time Series Models
• Combining Forecasts
• Stationarity, Stability and System Representations
• Part 2: Numerical Methods
• Introduction to Part 2
• 6 Maximum Likelihood Estimation
• Estimating Statistical Parameters
• Likelihood Ratio Test
• 7 Monte Carlo Methods
• Numerical Experiments
• Random and Pseudo-Random Numbers
• 8 Agent-based Modeling and Simulations
• Complex Adaptive Systems and Simulations
• Agent-based Models
• Issues with Agent-based Models
• Evaluation of an Agent-based Model
• Concluding Remarks
• Appendix: Software Programs