Sensory Discrimination Tests and Measurements provides a comprehensive discussion of sensory discriminative analysis from a statistical perspective.

Features:

• A comprehensive discussion of sensory discriminative analysis from a statistical perspective
• Includes a wide variety of test and measurement methods, which were developed during the past decades and scattered in various statistical and non-statistical journals
• A unified picture of the state of the subject and reflects some features of advanced sensory discriminative analysis
• Designed to be both a reference manual and a research monograph, practitioners will discover various useful test and measurement procedures

Contents

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 (BB) Model
7. Replicated Discrimination Tests: Corrected Beta-Binomial (CBB) Model
8. Replicated Discrimination Tests: Dirichlet-Multinomial (DM) Model
9. Measurements of Sensory Differences: Thurstonian Model
10. Statistical Analysis for d' Data
11. Similarity Testing

Appendix: List of S-Plus Codes

Index

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