SEARCHING PROBLEMS BETWEEN DOCTORS AND MEDICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVES WITH LOG-LINEAR ANALYSIS
Abstract
As in many countries, medical advertisements are forbidden in our country. Therefore medical companies benefit from medical sales representatives to sell their product in today’s environment of rivalry. Medical sales representatives establish a relation between doctors who propose medical products to their patients and medical manufacturer companies. Fast developments in the medical sector and conditions of increasing rivalry cause some problems between medical companies and doctors. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to doctors who work in Ankara, Turkey. In this study, variables that deal with the research subjects were first converted to a contingency table, and then relations between these variables were analyzed by using the log-linear model.
Keywords
References
- Agresti, A. (1990) Categorical data analysis, John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Agresti, A. (1984) Analysis of ordinal categorical data, John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Becanım, C. (2006) “Log-Lineer Modeller ve Doktor-Tıbbi Satış Mümessilleri İlişkileri Üzerine Bir Uygulama”, Gazi Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Ankara.
- Bishop,Y.M., Fienberg, S., ve Holland, P. (1975) Discrete multivariate analysis, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass.
- Christensen, R. (1990) Log-linear models, Springer-Verlag, New York.
- Haberman, S.J. (1974) The analysis of frequency data, Univ.Chicago Press, Chicago.
- Haberman, J.S. (1988) “A warning on the use of chi-squared statistics with frequency tables with small expected cell counts”, JASA, 63 (402) 555-561.
- Goodman, L.A. (1970) “The multivariate analysis of qualiative data: interaction among multiple classification”, J.Amer. Statist.Assoc., 65, 226- 256.
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Sociology (Other)
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
October 15, 2007
Submission Date
August 15, 2007
Acceptance Date
October 1, 2007
Published in Issue
Year 2007 Volume: 18 Number: 2