TY - BOOK AU - Burns,Alvin C. AU - Bush,Ronald F. TI - Marketing research SN - 0131477323 AV - HF5415.2 .B779 PY - 2006/// CY - Upper Saddle River, NJ PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall KW - Marketing research N1 - "SPSS integration"-- Pref; Introduction to marketing research -- The marketing research process -- The marketing research industry -- Defining the problem and determining research objectives -- Research design -- Using secondary data and online information databases -- Standardized information sources -- Observation, focus groups, and other qualitative methods -- Survey data-collection methods -- Measurement in marketing research -- Designing the questionnaire -- Determining how to select the sample -- Determining the size of a sample -- Data collection in the field, nonresponse error, and questionnaire screening -- Basic data analysis : descriptive statistics -- Generalizing a sample's findings to its population and testing hypotheses about percents and means -- Testing for differences between two groups or among more than two groups -- Determining and interpreting associations among variables -- Regression analysis in marketing research -- The marketing research report : preparation and presentation ER -