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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Marketing research: an applied approach</title>
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    <namePart>Malhotra, Naresh K.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Birks, David F.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Prentice Hall</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxi,835 p.: ill.; 26cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Introduction to marketing research -- Defining the marketing research problem and developing a research approach -- Research design -- Secondary data collection and analysis -- Internal secondary data and the use of databases -- Qualitative research: its nature and approaches -- Qualitative research: focus groups -- Qualitative research: in-depth interviewing and projective techniques -- Qualitative research: data analysis -- Survey and qualitative observation techniques -- Causal research design: experimentation -- Measurement and scaling: fundamentals, comparative and non-comparative scaling -- Questionaire design -- Sampling: design and procedures -- Sampling: final and initial sample size determination -- Survey fieldwork -- Data preparation -- Frequency distribution, cross-tabulation and hypothesis testing -- Analysis of variance and covariance -- Identifying relationships -- Discriminant analysis -- Factor analysis -- Cluster analysis -- Multidimensional scaling and conjoint analysis -- Report preparation and presentation -- International marketing  research -- Business-to-business (b2b) marketing research.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Naresh K. Malhotra and David F. Birks</note>
  <note>Includes index</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Marketing research</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HF5415.2.M291</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0273706896</identifier>
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