A comparison between multivariate and bivariate analysis used in marketing research

Abstract

This paper is about instrumental research conducted in order to compare the information given by two multivariate data analyses in comparison with the usual bivariate analysis. The outcomes of the research reveal that sometimes the multivariate methods use more information from a certain variable, but sometimes they use only a part of the information considered the most important for certain associations. For this reason, a researcher should use both categories of data analysis in order to obtain entirely useful information.