Coverpage -- Series Editor -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Examples -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Analysis of Data Introduction to Part 1 -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 The Nature of Data in Tourism -- Introduction -- Data: A Taxonomy -- Data Quality -- Data Harmonization, Standards and Collaboration -- Concluding Remarks -- Sources of Secondary Tourism Data -- 2 Testing Hypotheses -- Introduction -- Parametric and Non-parametric Tests -- Effect Size and Statistical Power -- Sample Size and Significance -- A Summary of Statistical Tests -- 3 Data Analysis -- Introduction -- Factor Analysis -- Cluster Analysis -- Multidimensional Scaling and Correspondence Analysis -- 4 Model Building -- Simple Regression -- Multiple Regression -- Logistic Regression -- Structural Equation Modeling -- Mediation and Moderation in Model Building -- Multi-Level Modeling -- 5 Time-dependent Phenomena and Forecasting -- Introduction -- Basic Concepts of Time Series -- Filtering Techniques -- Comparing Time Series Models -- Combining Forecasts -- Stationarity, Stability and System Representations -- Part 2: Numerical Methods -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 6 Maximum Likelihood Estimation -- Estimating Statistical Parameters -- Likelihood Ratio Test -- 7 Monte Carlo Methods -- Numerical Experiments -- Random and Pseudo-Random Numbers -- 8 Agent-based Modeling and Simulations -- Complex Adaptive Systems and Simulations -- Agent-based Models -- Issues with Agent-based Models -- Evaluation of an Agent-based Model -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Software Programs.