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1. Define Business research and discuss the managerial value of the same.
9. List the rights and obligations of the participant, researcher and the sponsor
for business research.
a. Exploratory research
b. Experience Surveys
e. Pilot studies
15.Explain the terms ‘Fact finding’, “Model building’ & ‘Data mining’ with respect
to secondary data research design.
a. Objectives of a survey
20.“ ...The observer may choose to be visible or hidden while the environment of
the observation may be natural or scientifically contrived…” Explain the four
types of observations discussed here while elaborating on the 7-types of
variables that can be observed.
For example, consider a normal population with mean μ and variance σ². Assume
we repeatedly take samples of a given size from this population and calculate the
arithmetic mean for each sample — this statistic is called the sample mean.
Each sample has its own average value, and the distribution of these averages is
called the “sampling distribution of the sample mean”. This distribution is normal
since the underlying population is normal. : Wikipedia)
The following definitions are mainly based on the exposition in the book by Lehmann and
Romano:[7]