Can the same-different test use a β-criterion as well as a τ-criterion?

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 605-613

  Lee, H S ^a,b   van Hout, D ^b   Hautus, M ^c   O'Mahony, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

criterion and criterion; Cognitive strategies; Decision rules; ROC curve; Same different test; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846466532     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2006.03.024     Document Type: Article

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