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Main Author: Platoni, Kara (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. one. The five senses
  • pt. two. Metasensory perception
  • pt. three. Hacking perception.
  • Machine generated contents note: Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Important data collection techniques for sensory and consumer studies
  • 2.1. Sensory panel methodologies
  • 2.2 Consumer tests
  • Chapter 3. Quality control of sensory profile data
  • 3.1. General introduction
  • 3.2. Visual inspection of raw data
  • 3.3 Mixed model ANOVA for assessing the importance of the sensory attributes.
  • 3.4 Overall assessment of assessor differences using all variables simultaneously
  • 3.5 Methods for detecting differences in use of the scale
  • 3.6. Comparing the assessors' ability to detect differences between the products.
  • 3.7. Relations between individual assessor ratings and the panel average
  • 3.8. Individual line plots for detailed inspection of assessors
  • 3.9. Miscellaneous methods
  • Chapter 4. Correction methods and other remedies for improving sensory profile data.
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Correcting for different use of the scale.
  • 4.3. Computing improved panel averages
  • 4.4 Pre-processing of data for three-way analysis
  • Chapter 5. Detecting and studying sensory differences and similarities between products.
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Analysing sensory profile data
  • univariate case
  • 5.3 Analysing sensory profile data
  • multivariate case
  • Chapter 6. Relating sensory data to other measurements.
  • 6.2 Estimating relations between consensus profiles and external data
  • 6.3 Estimating relations between individual sensory profiles and external data
  • Chapter 7. Discrimination and similarity testing
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Analysis of data from basic sensory discrimination tests
  • 7.3 Examples of basic discrimination testing
  • 7.4. Power calculations in discrimination tests.
  • 7.5 Thurstonian modelling
  • what is it really?
  • 7. 6 Similarity versus difference testing
  • 7.7 Replications
  • what to do?
  • 7.8 Designed experiments, extended analysis and other test protocols
  • Chapter 8. Investigating important factors influencing food acceptance and choice (conjoint analysis).
  • 8.1 Introduction.
  • 8.2. Preliminary analysis of consumer data sets (raw data overview).
  • 8.3 Experimental designs for rating based consumer studies
  • 8.4 Analysis of categorical effect variables
  • 8.5. Incorporating additional information about consumers
  • 8.6 Modelling of factors as continuous variables
  • 8.7. Reliability/validity testing for rating based methods.
  • 8.8. Rank based methodology
  • 8.9. Choice based conjoint analysis
  • 8.10 Market share simulation
  • Chapter 9. Preference mapping for understanding relations between sensory product attributes and consumer acceptance
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 External and internal preference mapping
  • 9.3. Examples of linear preference mapping.
  • 9.4 Ideal point preference mapping.
  • 9.5. Selecting samples for preference mapping
  • 9.6. Incorporating additional consumer attributes
  • 9.7 Combining preference mapping with additional information about the samples
  • Chapter 10. Segmentation of consumer data.
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Segmentation of rating data
  • 10.3. Relating segments to consumer attributes. Chapter 11. Basic Statistics
  • Chapter 11 Basic Statistics
  • 11.1 Basic concepts and principles.
  • 11.2 Histogram, frequency and probability11.3. Some basic properties of a distribution (mean, variance and standard deviation)
  • 11.4. Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for the mean
  • 11.5 Statistical process control
  • 11.6 Relationships between two or more variables
  • 11.7. Simple linear regression.
  • 11.8 Binomial distribution and tests
  • 11.9 Contingency tables and homogeneity testing
  • Chapter 12. Design of experiments for sensory and consumer data
  • 12. 1. Introduction.
  • 12.2. Important concepts and distinctions.
  • 12.3. Full factorial designs
  • 12.4. Fractional factorial designs
  • screening designs
  • 12.5. Randomised blocks and incomplete block designs
  • 12.6 Split-plot and nested designs
  • 12.7 Power of experiments
  • Chapter 13. ANOVA for sensory and consumer data
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 One-way ANOVA
  • 13.3 Single replicate two-way ANOVA
  • 13.4 Two-way ANOVA with randomized replications Chapter 13.5 Multi-way ANOVA
  • 13.6. ANOVA for fractional factorial designs.
  • 13.7 Fixed and random effects in ANOVA: Mixed models.
  • 13.8 Nested and split-plot models. Chapter 13.9 Post hoc testing
  • Chapter 14. Principal Component Analysis
  • 14.1 Interpretation of complex data sets by PCA 14.2 Data structures for the PCA
  • 4.3 PCA
  • Description of the method
  • 14.4. Projections and linear combinations.
  • 14.5. The scores and loadings plots
  • 14.6. Correlation loadings plot.
  • 14.7 Standardisation
  • 14.8 Calculations and missing values
  • 14.9. Validation
  • 14.10 Outlier diagnostics
  • 14.11 Tucker-1
  • 14.12 The relation between PCA and factor analysis (FA)
  • Chapter 15. Multiple regression, principal components regression and partial least squares regression.
  • 15.1 Introduction.
  • 15.2. Multivariate linear regression
  • 15.3. The relation between ANOVA and regression analysis
  • 15.4 Linear regression used for estimating polynomial models
  • 15.5 Combining continuous and categorical variables.
  • 15.6. Variable selection for multiple linear regression
  • 15.7. Principal components regression (PCR)
  • 15.8. Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression
  • 15.9. Model validation
  • prediction performance
  • 15.10. Model diagnostics and outlier detection
  • 15.11 Discriminant analysis
  • 15.12 Generalised linear models, logistic regression and multinomial regression
  • Chapter 16. Cluster analysis
  • unsupervised classification
  • 16.1 Introduction
  • 16.2 Hierarchical clustering
  • 16.3. Partitioning methods.
  • 16.4. Cluster analysis for matrices.
  • 17. Miscellaneous methodologies
  • 17.1. Three-way analysis of sensory data
  • 17.2. Relating three-way data to two-way data
  • 17.3. Path modelling
  • 17.4. MDS-multidimensional scaling Chapter 17.5 Analysing rank data
  • 17.6. The L-PLS method
  • 17.7. Missing value estimation
  • Nomenclature, symbols and abbreviations
  • Index.