Estimation and inference in the same-different test

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 514-524

  Christensen, Rune Haubo Bojesen ^a   Brockhoff, Per Bruun ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Discrimination protocols; Profile likelihood curve; Similarity; Thurstonian models

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650125188     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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