Identification of drivers of overall liking - determination of relative importances of regressor variables

Journal of Sensory Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 245-254

  Bi, Jian ^a   Chung, Julia ^b  

^a Sensometrics Research and Service   (United States)

^b MARS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS ATTRIBUTE; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING LITERATURE; MULTICOLLINEARITY; MULTIPLE PRODUCTS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; RANDOM FORESTS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; SENSORY PANELS;

DECISION TREES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79960942621     PISSN: 08878250     EISSN: 1745459X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-459X.2011.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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