The authors show how to incorporate actual purchase behavior data (usually from diaries) into the calculation of standard errors for making inferences about the proportion of purchasers from self-reported purchase intent. The case considered is for a single sample and two products, where interest is in the difference between the two groups in probability of purchase.
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