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Qualitative computing for marketing and business

In business and marketing, qualitative research is needed but rarely accepted. Data from focus group discussions, case histories or interviews requires qualitative analysis if the researcher is to discover new meanings in accounts or interpret...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2000: The Impact Of Networking

Authors: Tom Richards, Lyn Richards

September 1, 2000

Web surveys

Sell-selected surveys on the Web are extremely cost-attractive however they lack a valid statistical inference. Similar to quota samples it is only the empirical validation that can give them some justification. The paper describes the empirical...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 1999

Authors: Vasja Vehovar, Zenel Batagelj

June 15, 1999

Aiming at knowledge

Strategic marketing decisions call for up-to-date and reliable information about market developments. Information is necessary in order to be able to successfully capitalize on current developments in the environment. Information or rather knowledge...

Catalogue: Seminar 1999: Market and Competitive Intelligence

Authors: Arjen Kuijten, Edward Hermans

Company: NIPO

March 1, 1999

Statistic and significance testing

Statistics may be defined as ‘the collection, analysis and interpretation of numerical data’. As market research is concerned mostly with counting and measuring, it is not surprising that the theory of statistics can play an important part...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Paul Harris

September 1, 1998

Focusing knowledge on the issues

This paper argues that information alone is not enough. Only when meaning is added to information does it become knowledge. Knowledge needs to be stored and accessed by relevant valid constructs in order to be able to say to clients: “the answer...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Jean Mcdougall, Sue Gardiner

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1998

The debate continues but the emphasis is more about 'quality'

The Monograph will try to explain what is meant by 'quality' and how it may be achieved and improved upon. Its contributors argue that to achieve real quality requires discipline - in the design, execution, analysis, interpretation and presentation...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.4: Qualitative Research

Author: Peter Sampson

January 1, 1998

Cross cultural qualitative research

There is a good deal of misunderstanding about how qualitative researchers work with participants and how participants react in qualitative studies in Asian countries and especially in Japan. In fact, when we do cross-cultural qualitative research in...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.4: Qualitative Research

Author: Kazuko Ohye

January 1, 1998

Drilling or mining?

The paper reviews the developments which have taken place in the retailer panel services in the late 80's and early 90's, with specific reference to the move from retail audits to scanning based services and the current trend towards census data. The...

Catalogue: Revolutions In Panel Research 1997: New Questions, New Solutions

Author: Tony Antoniou

February 1, 1997

Fuzzy logic to rank attributes

The marketing research community has hitherto examined consumer behavior using mathematical models derived from non-human systems. We have adopted classifications demanding unequivocal decisions in allocating judgements to clear-cut categories such...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Authors: Akin Alyanak, Erkani Keyman

September 1, 1996