| General Web Interviewing (CiW) Help |
| Getting Started |
 | Getting Started with Web Interviewing |
| Getting Started: 45-Minute Tour of SSI Web |
| Software Requirements: Users, Servers and Respondents |
| Creating/Opening a Study |
| What's New in V7.0? |
| Composing Web Surveys |
| Composing Questions |
| Adding Questions to Your Survey |
| Setting Page Breaks |
| The Start Question |
| Select Questions |
| Numeric Questions |
| Open-End Questions |
| Text/HTML Filler Questions |
| Terminate/Link Questions |
| Grid Questions |
| Constant Sum Questions |
| Ranking Questions |
| Free Format Questions |
| Introduction |
| Radio |
| Checkbox |
| Select (Combo Box) |
| TextArea |
| Text (Text Box) |
| Text (Numeric) |
| Hidden Variables |
| JavaScript in SSI Web |
| How CiW License Sizes are Counted |
| What Happens at the End of the Survey? |
| Formatting Options |
| Survey Settings (Style) |
| General Format |
| Page Format |
| Headers and Footers |
| Progress Bar |
| Browser Settings |
| Error Messages |
| Server Settings |
| Advanced |
| HTML Elements to Enhance Your Survey |
| HTML Cheat-Sheet |
| Including Graphics |
| Graphics Management |
| Randomizing Questions/Pages/Blocks |
| Skip Logic |
| List Building |
| SSI Script |
| Displaying Responses Given to Previous Questions |
| Functions |
| List Functions |
| System Functions |
| Quota Control Functions |
| Math Functions |
| String Functions |
| Error Functions |
| CBC Functions |
| ACA Functions |
| CVA Functions |
| MaxDiff Functions |
| ACBC Functions |
| More Detail on Boolean (True/False) Functions |
| Additional Details on Certain Functions |
| Generating Random Numbers |
| Unverified Perl |
| Surveys in Non-English Languages |
| Print Survey |
| Respondent Passwords |
| Introduction to Passwords |
| Start Question Layout |
| Password Fields |
| Merged Fields |
| Adding/Importing Password Data |
| Pass-In Fields |
| Cookies and User-Defined Passwords |
| Modifying Passwords When in Field |
| Quota Control |
| Introduction to Quota Control |
| Quota Dialog |
| Quota Control Settings |
| Predictive Quota Control |
| Prequalification in Quota Control |
| Quota Changes Mid-Study |
| Testing/Running the Survey Locally |
| Testing/Running the Survey Locally |
| Survey Installation on Web Server |
| Uploading Survey to Web Server |
| Manual Upload to Server |
| Uploading Survey to Microsoft IIS Servers |
| Deleting Practice Data Prior to Taking the Study "Live" |
| Troubleshooting Server-Side Problems |
| How Respondents Access the Web Survey |
| How Respondents Access the Web Survey |
| "One-Click" Respondent Access to Survey |
| Linking to Sawtooth Software's Web Survey from Another Survey Program |
| Making Changes after Fielding Begins |
| Making Changes after Fielding Begins |
| CAPI Interviewing with "SSI Web CAPI" |
| CAPI Interviewing with "SSI Web CAPI" |
| Accumulating CAPI Files |
| Deleting Sensitive Data from CAPI Interviewing PCs |
| Managing Survey Data |
| How Data Are Stored |
| Admin Module |
| Setting Passwords for Administrative Access |
| Logging On |
| Downloading Survey Data |
| Viewing Survey Data |
| Marginals: Tabulating Data On-Line |
| Downloading Password Report |
| Incompletes Report |
| Test Survey Mode |
| Reset Web Survey |
| Customizing the Administrative Module |
| Exporting/Analyzing Data |
| Exporting Data |
| Selecting Data to Export |
| Additional Data Formatting Settings |
| Exporting Open-End Data |
| Analyzing Data with Online Simulator |
| Moving Data from SSI Web to SMRT for Analysis |
| Files created by SSI Web |
| Files created by SSI Web |
| CBC Help |
| Getting Started with CBC |
| Overview of CBC Software |
| What is Choice-Based Conjoint? |
| CBC Tutorial and Example |
| Designing CBC Studies |
| CBC Questionnaires and Designs |
| Defining Attributes and Levels |
| Specifying Prohibitions |
| Attribute Interactions |
| Number of Attributes/Levels/Tasks in CBC |
| None Option/Dual-Response None |
| Specifying Fixed or Holdout Tasks |
| Specifying CBC Design Parameters |
| Testing the CBC Design |
| Importing/Exporting CBC Designs |
| Advanced CBC Designs |
| Conditional Pricing for CBC |
| Conditional Display |
| Alternative-Specific Designs |
| Partial-Profile Designs |
| Shelf-Facing Display |
| Customized CBC Questions Using "Free Format" |
| Volumetric CBC |
| CBC Paper-and-Pencil Studies |
| Analyzing the Data |
| Preparing Conjoint Data for SMRT |
| Moving Data from SSI Web to SMRT for Analysis |
| .CHO File Format |
| .CHS File Format |
| Adaptive CBC (ACBC) Help |
| Getting Started with ACBC |
| Welcome to Adaptive CBC! |
| ACBC Specifications |
| Overview |
| Motivation for Adaptive CBC |
| Sections and Flow for Adaptive CBC |
| Design Tab (ACBC) |
| Attributes and Levels for Adaptive CBC |
| Price in Adaptive CBC |
| Hands-On Tutorials |
| Tutorial #1 (Beaches) |
| Tutorial #2 (Pianos) |
| ACBC Design Algorithms |
| How Concepts Are Chosen |
| Deviation from Target Frequencies |
| Advanced ACBC Surveys |
| Customized (Constructed) Attribute and Level Lists |
| Price Adjustments (Within Summed Pricing) |
| Conditional Graphics |
| Unverified Perl to Customize ACBC Questions |
| Checklist Prior to Fielding |
| Checklist Prior to Fielding |
| Analysis of ACBC Data |
| Counting Analysis for ACBC |
| Coding the Information for Parameter Estimation |
| Modeling the Price Function |
| HB Estimation |
| Interaction Effects |
| Utility Constraints, Including Customized Constraints |
| Monotone Regression (Pure Individual Analysis) |
| Analysis with Tiny Sample Sizes |
| None Threshold & Calibration to Purchase Likelihood |
| Exporting ACBC Data to .CHO File |
| ACBC: How Well Does It Work? |
| References |
| MaxDiff Help |
| Getting Started with MaxDiff |
| Introduction |
| Motivation for MaxDiff |
| What is MaxDiff? |
| MaxDiff Tutorial and Example |
| Creating a MaxDiff Experiment |
| Question and Label Text |
| Question Format |
| Developing a List of Items |
| Designing the Study |
| Analyzing MaxDiff Data |
| Counting Analysis |
| Individual-Level Score Estimation |
| Identifying "Bad" Respondents |
| Customized MaxDiff Questions with "Free Format" |
| Computing Scores On-The-Fly |
| Paper-and-Pencil Studies |
| MaxDiff Analysis Using CBC/HB v5.x |
| MaxDiff Analysis Using Latent Class v4 |
| Robustness of MaxDiff Designs to Prohibitions |
| ACA Help |
| Getting Started with ACA |
| Getting Started with ACA |
| What is ACA? |
| Basic Overview of ACA |
| ACA Tutorial and Example |
| Sections and Flow of ACA Questionnaires |
| Defining Attributes and Levels |
| Specifying Prohibitions in ACA |
| Setting ACA Control Parameters |
| How ACA Data Are Stored |
| Computing Utilities and Analyzing ACA Data |
| Is ACA the Appropriate Technique? |
| Staying out of Trouble with ACA |
| Advanced ACA Questionnaires |
| Omitting the "Importance" Question |
| Customizing the "Importance" Question |
| Algorithms and Estimation Techniques |
| Details of ACA/Web Utility Estimation |
| Choosing the Next Paired-Comparison Question |
| Updating Utilities During the Interview |
| ACA/HB Estimation |
| ACA File Formats |
| Format of .UTL and .ACD Files |
| Real-Time Feedback to Respondents |
| Moving Data from SSI Web to SMRT for Analysis |
| Analyzing ACA Data with the Market Simulator |
| CVA Help |
| Getting Started with CVA |
| Introduction to CVA |
| CVA Tutorial and Example |
| Is CVA the Appropriate Technique? |
| Designing/Creating a CVA Study |
| Attributes and Levels |
| Defining Attributes and Levels |
| Level Prohibitions and CVA Studies |
| Designing the CVA Tasks (Questions) |
| Introduction to CVA Questionnaires |
| Advantages and Challenges of CVA Questionnaires |
| Selecting the Number of Tasks |
| Throw out "Obvious" Tasks |
| CVA Design Strategy |
| Testing the CVA Design |
| Importing/Exporting CVA Designs |
| Including Holdout Choice Tasks in CVA Questionnaires |
| CVA/Web Paper and Pencil Studies |
| CVA/Web Paper and Pencil Studies |
| CVA Advanced Designs |
| Conditional Display for CVA |
| Conditional Pricing for CVA |
| Modeling Interaction Effects with CVA |
| Sparse Designs and Large Samples |
| Data Analysis |
| Estimating Part-Worth Utilities |
| CVA Ordinary Least Squares Settings |
| CVA Monotone Regression Settings |
| Technical Details |
| The CVA Designer |
| How CVA Calculates Utilities |
| Avoiding Linear Dependency |
| The CVA/HB Module for HB Estimation |
| What is CVA/HB (hierarchical Bayes for CVA)? |
| Running CVA/HB |
| Using Constraints in CVA/HB |
| Appendices for SSI Web |
| A: Interpreting Conjoint Analysis Data |
| B: Holdout Choice Tasks in Conjoint Studies |
| SMRT (Market Simulator) Help |
| What Is SMRT? |
| Data and Utility Run Management |
| Importing Utility Runs |
| Merging Segmentation Data |
| Custom Segmentation Variables |
| Weighting Respondents |
| Data Management Tools |
| Tables Program |
| Using Simulators to Answer Strategic Questions |
| Overview |
| What Is a Market Simulation? |
| Why Conduct Market Simulations? |
| Typical Questions for Conjoint Simulators |
| Market Simulation Theory and Models |
| Base Case Scenario |
| The Exponent (Scale Factor) |
| The Red-Bus/Blue-Bus Problem |
| Market Simulator Models |
| External Effects |
| Interpolating between Levels |
| The "None" Weight |
| Using the Market Simulator |
| The Market Simulator Dialog |
| Adding a Simulation Scenario |
| Other Controls in Simulation Scenarios |
| Running the Simulation |
| Practical Simulation Examples |
| Introduction |
| New Product Introductions |
| Estimating Demand Curves and Elasticities |
| Designing Products to Appeal to Unique Market Segments |
| Technical Details for Simulations |
| First Choice Method |
| Share of Preference Options |
| Purchase Likelihood Option |
| Randomized First Choice |
| CBC Analysis: Counts and Logit |
| Counting Analysis for CBC |
| Logit Analysis for CBC |
| Appendices for Simulation Topics |
| Importing Conjoint Data from Text-Only Files |
| How the Simulator Interpolates between Levels |
| How the Simulator Uses Latent Class Data |