Healthcare Databases Explained

In the last year, AGS has released an additional database with health related variables: Chronic Diseases and Risk Factors. This database joins the Healthcare database that AGS has had in our library for many years. But how are these databases different, and when...

Database Overview: Behaviors and Attitudes

The Behavior and Attitudes database is a collection of modeled variables that are intended to complement and simplify the main Consumer Behavior MRI database by focusing on those key attitudes and behavioral characteristics that drive consumer behavior and lifestyles...

Product Focus: Demographic Dimensions

One of the key problems that analysts face when building multivariate statistical models is multicollinearity in the independent variables. Imagine for a moment that you are trying to predict the demand for books by neighborhood using a simple demographic model. It...

Climate Database Overview

While you may not immediately consider it necessary data, climate data can be very useful for insurance underwriting, retail merchandising, and real estate. AGS offers a general Climate database, which consists of four types of weather-based indexes, including...