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Marketing Research
Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Marketing Research | systematic gathering,recording, and analysis of data about issues relating to marketing products and services. |
| Marketing Information System | set of procedures and methods for regular, planned collection, analysis, and presentation of information for use in making management decisions |
| Observation Method | method of data collection in which the situation of interest is watched and the relevant facts,actions,or behaviors recorded |
| Primary Data | information collected specifically for the purpose of the investigation at hand |
| Quantitative Research | uses numberical analysis |
| Qualitative Research | data-gathering techniques that are focused on the significance of observations made in a study |
| Reliability | determines how consistently an instrument yields similar results under any condition |
| Secondary Data | statistics not gathered for immediate study at hand |
| Validity | degree to which the instrument measures what is supposed to be measured |
| Focus Group | Personal interview conducted among a small # of individuals relies on more of a group discussion rather than questions to gather data |