Significance test of the adjusted Rand index. Application to the free sorting task

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-97

  Qannari, El Mostafa ^a,b   Courcoux, Philippe ^a,b   Faye, Pauline ^a,b  

^a LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Adjusted rand index; Free sorting task; Permutation test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886263863     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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