Investigation of the number of consumers necessary to obtain stable sample and descriptor configurations from check-all-that-apply (CATA) questions

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-141

  Ares, Gastón ^a   Tárrega, Amparo ^b   Izquierdo, Luis ^b   Jaeger, Sara R ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^c THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Check all that apply questions; Consumers; Research methodology; Sensory characterization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885066388     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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