A concise guide to market research: the process, data, and methods using IBM SPSS statistics

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 clusteranalysis. For each technique, theoretical choices a market researcher has to make and how these are translated into actions in IBM SPSS Statistics are explained. This includes a discussion what the outputs mean and how they should beinterpreted from a market research perspective. Each chapter concludes with acase study that illustrates the process based on real-world data. A comprehensive web appendix with additional analysis techniques, datasets, video files and case studies is included. Several mobile tags in the text allow readers to quickly browse related web content using a mobile device. Compact, hands-on and step-by-step introduction to quantitative market research techniques Presents the most important techniques and shows how to translate theoretical choicesinto SPSS and how to analyze the output Case study at the end of each chapterInnovative supplementary online concept, including mobile tags, sample datasets and additional cases INDICE: 1 Introduction.- 2 The Market Research Process.- 3 Data.- 4 Descriptive Statistics.- 5 Analysis of Variance (Anova).- 6 Regression Analysis.- 7 Factor Analysis.- 8 Cluster Analysis and CHAID.- 9 Communicating the Findings.- References.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-12540-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés