A Concise Guide to Market Research: The Process, Data, and Methods Using IBM SPSS Statistics

✍ Scribed by Erik Mooi, Marko Sarstedt (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This accessible, practice-oriented and compact text provides a hands-on introduction to the principles of market research. Using the market research process as a framework, the authors explain how to collect and describe the necessary data and present the most important and frequently used quantitative analysis techniques, such as ANOVA, regression analysis, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. An explanation is provided of the theoretical choices a market researcher has to make with regard to each technique, as well as how these are translated into actions in IBM SPSS Statistics. This includes a discussion of what the outputs mean and how they should be interpreted from a market research perspective. Each chapter concludes with a case study that illustrates the process based on real-world data. A comprehensive web appendix includes additional analysis techniques, datasets, video files and case studies. Several mobile tags in the text allow readers to quickly browse related web content using a mobile device.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction to Market Research....Pages 1-9
The Market Research Process....Pages 11-23
Data....Pages 25-44
Getting Data....Pages 45-75
Descriptive Statistics....Pages 77-112
Hypothesis Testing & ANOVA....Pages 113-160
Regression Analysis....Pages 161-200
Factor Analysis....Pages 201-236
Cluster Analysis....Pages 237-284
Communicating the Results....Pages 285-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-307

✦ Subjects

Marketing; Management/Business for Professionals; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance