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Investigação Operacional
Print version ISSN 0874-5161
Abstract
MENDES, Evandro Luiz; SOARES, Tufi Machado and SOUZA, Reinaldo Castro. Latent Variable Scores: An Option for Customer Satisfaction Index of Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency. Inv. Op. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.2, pp.211-225. ISSN 0874-5161.
Structural Equation Models with unobservable variables and measurement error have been used in the production of customers satisfaction indexes to evaluate products and services quality as well as the economic performance of companies, sectors and nations. Previous studies pointed out the PLS (Partial Least Square) better than Maximum Likelihood method to estimate parameters in marketing applications, mainly because of data marketing feature. However, no study has shown the effects of estimation methods in the latent variable scores, specially, in the satisfaction scores. The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of estimation methods in the satisfaction scores based on the IASC model (Customer Satisfaction Index of Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency). The data and true scores will be generated by Monte Carlo Simulation and the estimated scores will be compared to the true ones through the following information measures: linear correlation, mutual information and an empirical information measure.
Keywords : Structural Equation Models; Latent Variable Score; Empirical Information Measure.