Quantitative Methods in Tourism: A Handbook, Edition 2
About this ebook
Updates to the second edition include:
• a new chapter on “Big Data”
• consideration of data screening and cleaning
• the use of similarity and diversity indexes for comparing samples
• observations about the partial least squares (PLS) approach to path modelling
• a new section on multi-group structural equation modelling
• a new section on common method variance and its treatment
• revised and updated section on software
• fully updated references and examples
About the author
Rodolfo Baggio is Professor of the Master of Economics and Tourism at Bocconi University, Italy. His research interests focus on information technology and tourism and his current work combines complexity theory and network analysis methods to the study of tourism destinations.
Jane Klobas is an Education and Research Consultant, based in Australia and Italy. She is an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University, Australia and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo, Italy and other universities in Europe and Asia. Her interests include research development, adult learning, knowledge and information management and applications of the theory of planned behaviour.
