Data Analysis for Marketing Decisions
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Course Introduction
This course explores the essential tools and techniques of data analysis used to inform and enhance marketing decisions. Students will learn how to collect, organize, and interpret data to identify market trends, segment customers, evaluate campaign effectiveness, and optimize marketing strategies. Emphasis is placed on practical applications using statistical methods, data visualization, and software tools relevant to marketing contexts. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to transform data-driven insights into actionable marketing recommendations, enabling more effective decision-making in a competitive business environment.
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Modern Marketing Research Concepts Methods and Cases 2nd Edition by Fred M. Feinberg
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Chapter 1: The Purpose and Process of Marketing Research
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Q1) The field of marketing research amounts to a set of methodologies designed to aid managerial decision-making.What are the essential steps in this approach?
Answer: The essential steps are:
1.Determine what information is needed.
2.Design a method for collecting this information.
3.Manage the data collection.
4.Analyze and interpret the results.
5.Communicate the findings in a way that clarifies the implications for decision-making.
Q2) During the 1930s,sampling became a serious methodological issue in marketing research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What is the contribution margin if the selling price is $25.00,variable costs are $13.00,and fixed costs are $50,000.
Answer: $12.00 (25-13)
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Chapter 2: Research Design and Data Sources
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Q1) A traditional panel is a fixed sample of respondents measured over time,although the variables measured are different each time; whereas an omnibus panel is a fixed sample in which the same variables are measured over time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Performance monitoring research may involve a special (ad hoc)study or a continuous research program.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Systematic error refers to
A) a constant bias in the measurement process
B) error due to sampling
C) random non-sampling error
D) inadvertent errors in coding and editing of data
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Measurement in Marketing Research
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Q1) In marketing,it is common for attitudinal,opinion,and predisposition judgments to be treated as interval data.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) _______________ involves the ability to use a measured marketing phenomenon at one point in time to predict another marketing phenomenon at a future point.
A) Test-retest validity
B) Split half reliability
C) Predictive validity
D) Concurrent validity
Answer: C
Q3) All of the following are methods of estimating validity <u>except</u>
A) test-retest validity
B) construct validity
C) content validity
D) concurrent validity
E) predictive validity
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Causal Designs and Marketing Experiments
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Q1) In the _______________ quasi-experimental design,both the experimental group and the control group are given pre-test and post-test measurement,but the two groups do not have pre-experimental test unit selection equivalence,i.e.the control group cannot be considered equivalent to the test group.
A) time-series
B) multiple time-series
C) nonequivalent control group
D) equivalent time-sample
Q2) In a Latin square (LS)design the number of categories of each extraneous variable to be controlled
A) must not be greater than two
B) exactly equals the number of treatments
C) has to be less than the number of treatments minus one, divided by two [<(n-1)/2]
D) exactly equals the number of dependent variables
Q3) The measures taken on the test units are the independent variables in an experiment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Data Collection: Exploratory and Conclusive Research
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Q1) The advantage of a natural environment observation versus a contrived observation setting is an increased probability that the exhibited behavior in the natural setting will more accurately reflect true behavior patterns.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When considering the three traditional approaches of communication,when sensitive or embarrassing questions are involved,evidence indicates that _______________ will produce the highest quality data.
A) personal interviews
B) telephone interviews
C) mail interviews
D) all of the communication methods
Q3) The raw data of focus groups include all of the following <u>except</u>
A) emotions
B) answers to questionnaire
C) body movements
D) verbatim comments
Q4) What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the communication method to collect data.
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Chapter 6: Designing Surveys and Data Collection
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Q1) In multiple-response questions,the order in which the response alternatives are listed tends to bias the data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A major disadvantage of using _______________ questions is interviewer bias while recording the respondent's answers.
A) open-ended
B) multiple-choice
C) dichotomous
D) indirect
Q3) The _______________ component of the questionnaire is an opening statement designed to enlist the respondent's help regarding the interview.
A) identification data
B) request for cooperation
C) instructions
D) information sought
E) classification data
Q4) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using multiple-response questions.
Q5) Identify the five sections of a questionnaire.
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Chapter 7: Sampling
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Q1) A properly defined population must be defined in what four terms? Give an example.
Q2) Researching with a full census of the population is always more accurate than using only a sample of that population.
A)True B)False
Q3) How many sampling cells would be required for a quota sampling based on the following control characteristics?
Age: 18-25,26-40,41-60,and 61+
Income: Less than $20,000,$20,000-$39,999,and $40,000-$59,999.
Education: Less than high school,High School,2-year degree,and 4-year degree
Q4) If a researcher takes a census of a population,then the finite population correction factor would be equal to 1,because the sample would include all of the population. A)True B)False
Q5) In sampling terminology,a parameter is any measurement taken of a sample. A)True B)False
Q6) What are absolute and relative precision?
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Chapter 8: Data Analysis and Statistical Methods:
Univariate and Bivariate Analyses
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Q1) In hypothesis testing,researchers never "accept" a null hypothesis,merely "fail to reject."
A)True
B)False
Q2) The _______________ is an appropriate measure of central tendency for interval data and is by far the most widely used measure in all of statistics.
A) mean
B) standard deviation
C) mode
D) median
Q3) When the total variation of a regression equation has been decomposed into that attributable to the regression,the remainder is attributable to error.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The median is not applicable for
A) nominal variables
B) ordinal variables
C) interval variables
D) a and c
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Chapter 9: Multiple Regression: Modeling Multivariate
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Q1) Describe what regression is and what it is used for.
Q2) Regression is the dominant method of data analysis throughout the natural and social sciences.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If the dependent variable in a regression model is continuous interval data,the analysis should employ
A) multiple linear regression
B) binary regression
C) Poisson or count regression
D) multinomial regression
E) ordinal regression
Q4) Describe the different types of analysis for the different data types of dependent variable.
Q5) Which list of common variables below would be examples of ordinal data?
A) price, time, volume, length, sales
B) gender, coupon used, college degree, promotion (yes/no)
C) education level, age group, survey scale response (e.g., 1 to 7)
D) ethnic group, product category, SKU, payment method
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Chapter 10: Multivariate Methods of Marketing Research I:
Factor, cluster, and Discriminant Analyses
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Q1) _______________ refer(s)to how well all the factors in the solution taken together explain each of the variables.
A) The overall eigenvalue
B) The F-test
C) Factor loadings
D) Communalities
Q2) Discuss the meaning of "eigenvalue" and the use of these within factor analysis.
Q3) Among the most common uses of cluster analysis in marketing are segmenting customers and products.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When is discriminant analysis appropriate?
Q5) Factor analysis can be used for all of the following applications in marketing research <u>except</u>
A) data reduction
B) structure identification
C) scaling
D) segmentation
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Q6) Discuss the possible applications in marketing research for factor analysis.
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Chapter 11: Multivariate Methods of Marketing Reseach Ii:
Conjoint Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling
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Q1) The axes of an MDS solution
A) are determined uniquely from the data by the MDS routine
B) have a special, privileged meaning
C) can be rotated and/or flipped and reinterpreted D) are pre-determined by researchers before the data is entered
Q2) To interpret the dimensions in MDS,each of the dimensions
A) is left to the judgment of the researchers
B) has its numbers correlated with external data that has been previously shown to relate to particular dimension
C) has its numbers correlated with any external data
D) none of the above
Q3) Sales and share are affected by all of the following <u>except</u>
A) promotion
B) customer expertise and knowledge
C) distribution
D) conjoint results
Q4) It is important to use a "none" or "no choice" option in all choice-based conjoint analysis.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Advanced Topics, research Frontiers, and
Preparing the Final Report
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Q1) A discussion of the methodology used in the research would be found in which section of the written report?
A) table of contents
B) executive summary
C) body
D) conclusions and recommendations
Q2) When there is little data for an individual respondent,nonhierarchical methods permit the borrowing of information from other respondents to obtain better estimates.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify the 4 items that should be summarized in the executive summary section of a written research report.
Q4) In terms of ratings,which movies have the highest heterogeneity?
A) Action and Animation
B) Animation and Art
C) Family and Classic
D) Art and Horror
Q5) Name the two main types of heterogeneity models.
Q6) Discuss 5 general guidelines for a written marketing research report.
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