A statistical method for analysing sensory profiling data obtained by means of fixed vocabulary or free choice profiling is discussed. The most interesting feature of this method is that it involves only simple statistical treatment and can therefore be performed using standard software...

We consider the triangle test with replications, i.e. each assessor is asked repeatedly. A commonly used test statistic for this situation is the sum of all correct assessments, summed over all assessors. Several authors (e.g. o’Mahony, 1982, Brockhoff and Schlich, 1998) argue that the...

If the number of assessors in a difference test is not large enough to ensure the desired power of the testing procedure, then it is often advised to use assessors repeatedly. That is, each assessor performs the testing not just once but several times. There is a discussion going on, how results...

This paper generalizes Kushner's (1997) method for finding optimal repeated measurements designs to optimal designs under an interference model. The model we assume is for a onedimensional layout without guard plots and with different left and right neighbour effects. The resulting optimal...

The so-called good-laboratory-practice (GLP) test provides an experimental design and appropriate statistical analysis for the problem of analyst performance assessment in microbiological laboratories. For a given sample material multiple dilution series are generated yielding colony counts from...