TY - BOOK AU - Churchill,Gilbert A. AU - Brown,Tom J. AU - Suter,Tracy A TI - Basic marketing research. SN - 9780324599343 AV - HF5415.2.C49 U1 - 658.8/3 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Australia, Mason, OH PB - South-Western/Cengage Learning KW - Marketing research N1 - Includes access code for free 4 month subscription to InfoTrac college edition, the online library (http://www.qualtrics.com/basic); Contents: The role of marketing research -- Gathering marketing intelligence:the systems approach -- Gathering marketing intelligence:the project approach -- Problem formulation -- Types of research design and exploratory research -- Descriptive and causal research designs -- Secondary data -- Standardized marketing information service -- Collecting primary data -- Collecting information by communication -- Collecting Information by observation -- Asking good questions:measurement basic -- Measuring attitudes and other variables -- Designing the questionnaire or observation form -- Developing the sampling plan -- Determining sample size -- Collecting the data:nonsampling errors and response rate calculation -- Data analysis:preliminary steps -- Data analysis:analyzing individual variable and basic of hypothesis testing -- Data analysis:analyzing multiple variables simultaneously -- The research report -- ER -