TY - BOOK AU - McDaniel, Carl. AU - Gates, Roger. TI - Marketing research essentials. SN - 9780470169704 AV - HF5415.2.M3825 PY - 2010/// CY - New Jersey PB - John Wiley & Sons N1 - Includes index; Contents: The role of marketing research in management decision making -- Problem definition, exploratory research and the research process -- Secondary data and databases -- Qualitative research -- Traditional survey research -- Online marketing research -- Primary data collection: Observation -- Primary data collection: Experimentation and test markets -- The concept of measurement and attitude scales -- Questionnaire design -- Basic sampling issues -- Sample size determination -- Data processing, fundamental data analysis and the statistical testing of differences -- Bivariate correlation and regression -- Communicating research results and managing marketing research ER -