Reconsidering the Specified Tetrad Test

Journal of Sensory Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 445-449

  Garcia, Karen ^a   Ennis, John M ^b   Prinyawiwatkul, Witoon ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Institute for Perception   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS;

EFFECT SIZE; OPERATIONAL POWER;

TESTING;

EID: 84897035963     PISSN: 08878250     EISSN: 1745459X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joss.12060     Document Type: Article

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