Contributions to assess the reproducibility and the agreement of respondents in CATA tasks

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 40, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 137-146

  Worch, Thierry ^a   Piqueras Fiszman, Betina ^b  

^a Qi Statistics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agreement; CATA data; McNemar test; MFACT; Reproducibility; Significance testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908607389     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2014.09.007     Document Type: Article

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