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Marketing Research
Chapter 5
Question | Answer |
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survey research methods | research procedures for collecting large amounts of data using question-and-answer formats |
respondent errors | consist of both nonresponse error and response error |
nonresponse error | a systematic bias that occurs when the final sample differs from the planned sample |
response error | when respondents have impaired memory or do not respond accurately |
person-administered surveys | data collection techniques that require the presence of a trained human interviewer who asks questions and records the subject's answers |
In-home interview | A structured question-and-answer exchange conducted in the respondents home |
mail-intercept interview | a face-to-face personal interview that takes place in a shopping mall |
telephone interviews | question-and-answer exchanges that are conducted via telephone technology |
computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) | Integrated telephone and computer system in which the interviewer reads the question from a computer screen and enters respondents' answers directly into the computer program |
wireless phone survey | method of conducting a marketing survey in which the data are collected using wireless phones |
Self-administered survey | a data collection technique in which the respondent reads the survey questions and records his or her own answers without the presence of a trained interviewer |
mail surveys | surveys sent to respondents using the postal service |
mail panel survey | a questionnaire sent to a group of individuals who have agreed in advance to participate |
Drop-off survey | a self-administered questionnaire that a representative of the researcher hand-delivers to selected respondents; the completed surveys are returned by mail or picked up by the representative |
Online surveys | survey data collected using the internet |
propensity scoring | used to adjust survey results to be more like those representative sample would have produced |
Generalizable | projectable to the population represented by the sample in a study |
topic sensitivity | the degree to which a survey question leads the respondent to give a socially acceptable response |
Incidence rate | The percentage of the general population that is the subject of the market research |
ability to participate | the ability of both the interviewer and the respondent to get together in a question-and-anser interchange |
willingness to participate | the respondent's inclination to disposition to share his or her thoughts |
Knowledge level | degree to which the selected respondents feel they have knowledge of or experience with the survey's topics |
causal research | studies that enable researchers to assess "cause-effect" relationships between two or more variables |
Independent variables | variables whose values are directly manipulated by the researcher |
dependent variables | measures of effects or outcomes that occur as a result of changes in level of the independent or causing variables |
experiment | an empirical investigation that tests for hypothesized relationships between dependent variables and manipulated independent variables |
variable | a concept or construct that can vary or have more than one value |
control variables | variables that the researcher does not allow to vary freely or systematically with independent variables; control variables should not change as the independent variable is manipulated |
extraneous variables | Any variables that experimental researchers do not measure or control that may affect the dependents variable. |
Validity | The extent to which the conclusions drawn from an experiment are true |
Internal validity | The extent to which the research design accurately identifies casual relationships |
external validity | the extent to which a casual relationship found in a study can be expected to be true for the entire target population |
laboratory (lab) experiments | causal research designs that are conducted in a artificial setting |
Field experiments | casual research designs that manipulate the independent variables in order to measure the dependent variable in a natural setting |
Test marketing | using controlled field experiments to gain information on specified market performance indicators |