Sensory discrimination tests and measurements : statistical principles, procedures, and tables

✍ Scribed by Bi, Jian

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 557
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Sensory Discrimination Tests and Measurements: Statistical Principles, Procedures and Tables provides a comprehensive discussion of sensory discriminative analysis from a statistical perspective. A wide variety of test and measurement methods, which were developed during the past decades and scattered in various statistical and non-statistical journals, are included in the book."--Jacket.

Abstract:

Sensory discriminative analysis forms a fundamental type of methodology and is used widely in sensory and consumer research. Sensory Discrimination Tests and Measurements: Statistical Principles, Procedures and Tables provides a comprehensive discussion of sensory discriminative analysis from a statistical perspective. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Introduction --
2. Standard discrimination tests --
3. Statistical power analysis for standard discrimination tests --
4. Modified discrimination tests --
5. Multiple-sample discrimination tests --
6. Replicated discrimination tests : beta-binomial model --
7. Replicated discrimination tests : corrected beta-binomial model --
8. Replicated discrimination tests : Dirichlet-multinomial model --
9. Measurements of sensory difference : Thurstonian model --
10. Statistical analysis for d' data --
11. Similarity testing --
App. A. List of S-plus codes.

✦ Subjects

Agriculture -- Statistical methods. Sensory discrimination -- Statistical methods. Biostatistik. Experimentauswertung. Sensorik (Neurophysiologie) Sensorische Prüfung. Versuchsplanung.