Assessment of the agreement and cluster analysis of the respondents in a CATA experiment

• Published in: Food quality and preference Vol. 77; pp. 184 - 190
• Main Authors: Llobell, Fabien, Giacalone, Davide, Labenne, Amaury, Qannari, El Mostafa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2019; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agreement; Atypical subjects; case studies; CATA experiment; Chemical and Process Engineering; Cluster analysis; Engineering Sciences; Food engineering; food quality; Life Sciences; Permutation test; questionnaires; Segmentation; Cluster analysis; Agreement; Atypical subjects; Segmentation; CATA experiment; Permutation test
• ISSN: 0950-3293; 1873-6343
• DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.05.017

•Strategies to investigate the agreement among respondents in a CATA experiment are discussed.•Permutation tests are set up to assess the consistency of the respondents for each attribute.•A strategy of segmenting the respondents while setting aside those who are atypical is introduced. Statistical...