Balancing simplicity with technical rigour, this practical guide to the statistical techniques essential to research in marketing and related fields, describes each method as well as shows how it is applied

This book offers an easily accessible and comprehensive guide to the entire market research process, from asking market research questions to collecting and analyzing data by means of quantitative methods. It is intended for all readers who wish to know more about the market research process,...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Market Research Process -- 3 Data -- 4 Getting Data -- 5 Descriptive Statistics -- 6 Hypothesis Testing & Anova -- 7 Regression Analysis -- 8 Factor Analysis -- 9 Cluster Analysis -- 10 Communicating the Findings -- References

This accessible, practice-oriented, and compact text provides a hands-on introduction to market research. Using the market research process as a framework, it explains how to collect and describe data and presents the most important and frequently used quantitative analysis techniques, such as...