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Sensory Statistics, Preference Mapping and Consumer Testing Course
Hands on
Sensory Statistics, Preference Mapping and Consumer Testing Course
Australian Extravaganza

Hal MacFie Training Services and Anne Hasted of Qi Statistics, are proud to announce a four days hands on training course in Sensory Statistics, Preference Mapping and Consumer Testing.

Dates
May 6th -9th 2008

Venue
Cliftons Training Facilities, Level 1
440 Collins Street
Melbourne
Victoria 3000
Australia
www.cliftons.com

A training course developed jointly by Hal Macfie & Anne Hasted


ABOUT THE LECTURER

Anne Hasted began her career as an academic statistician at Reading University but now runs Qi Statistics Ltd which offers statistical training, data analysis and consultancy support to research and industry and has developed both SENPAQ and Design Express software packages, . Anne has wide training and consultancy experience in both sensory and consumer research and has an international reputation for "user friendly" training.


Hands on Sensory Statistics, Preference Mapping and Consumer Testing Course

Designed to give you the knowledge, practice and the tools to do your own design, analysis and interpretation of sensory data and to investigate the relationship with consumer liking scores. Hands-on exercises, free XLSTAT and SENPAQ software for participants to take away.


Course Presenter
Anne Hasted
Qi Statistics Ltd

This is a four day combined version of our hands-on courses are now given regularly in Europe and the USA. They are tailored for sensory and consumer scientists who wish to learn the latest techniques and get practice on real-life examples. Mainly based around the use of SENPAQ and XLSTAT software, attendees will gain practical experience using real-life examples and will be able to save their work to take away with free copies of SENPAQ and XLSTAT and XLSTAT-MX so they will be competent to start using their expertise from day 1 after the course. Attendees will also receive a 6 month license for Design Express - the powerful Qi Statistics consumer trial design software and a number of specialised Excel spreadsheets.


Course Outline

Tuesday May 6th

9.00-12.30 Analysis of sensory descriptive data
Revision of QDA, hybrid & Spectrum approaches.
Comparisons of two samples -Student t-tests, Analysing QDA data using analysis of variance, Testing for sample differences, Least significant difference, multiple comparison tests, testing for interactions. Fixed, Random and Mixed model effects, Graphical displays
Exercises using SENPAQ and XLSTAT
   
12.30-13.30 Lunch
   
13.30-14.30 Panel Monitoring
Discrimination, Reproducibility, Measuring consistency -partitioning the interaction effects, assessor correlations
Exercises in SENPAQ
   
14.30-15.00
Power and Sensitivity in Sensory and Consumer testing
Statistical Power, sample size calculations Exercises
   
15.00-15.30 Tea
   
15.30-16.00 Power continued
Power in discrimination tests, Thurstonian methods versus Guessing models, claims testing
   
16.00-17.30 Non Parametric testing
How to analyse data in the form of ranks - applications of non parametric methods when ANOVA fails
Exercises using XLSTAT and SENPAQ

Wednesday May 7th

9.00-10.30 Multivariate Analysis 1
Principal Components Analysis of QDA data
Exercises in SENPAQ/XLSTAT
   
10.30-11.00 Coffee
   
11.00-12.30 Cluster Analysis, clustering of products and variables to select key sensory attributes
Exercises in XLSTAT
   
12.30-13.30 Lunch
   
13.30-15.00 Generalised Procrustes and PCA of QDA data for Free Choice Profiling, Flash profiling and assessing Panel Performance . Multiple Factor Analysis
Exercises in XLSTAT PRO and GPA using XLSTAT MX
   
15.00-15.30 Tea
   
15.30-17.00 Shelf-life Testing Design of shelf life tests
Analysis by time point
Detection of trends
Survival analysis approaches
Exercises in XLSTAT

Thursday May 8th

9.00-11.30 Analysis of Central Location Trials.
Tabulation and Presentation of scores and demographics data.
Hands on exercises in Excel.
Analysis of Variance, one and two way, Presentation of results, Bar charts, Use of Least Significant Differences. Multiple Comparison tests, Penalty analysis
Hands on Exercises in Excel
Analysis of incomplete designs. Exercises in XLSTAT and XLSTAT-MX
   
11.30-12.30 Designing Central Location trials:
Warm up, selection of samples, balanced designs and numbers of respondents
Hands on exercises using DESIGN EXPRESS and free Qi statistics Excel spread sheet
   
12.30-13.30 Lunch
   
13.30-14.30 Correspondence Analysis
Definition, graphical explanation, use with two way tables, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, Use for analysing demographical data in Central location trials.
   
14.30-15.00 Finding Consumer Segments
Cluster Analysis to identify consumer segments.
Hierarchical versus Non-hierarchical methods
   
  Tea
   
15.30-16.30 Finding Consumer Segments continued
Analysis of mean likings and testing relations with demographic and psychographic variables using Analysis of variance
Hands on exercises of cluster tabulation using Excel
Hands on exercises of cluster discrimination using Excel or XLSTAT
Use of Correspondence Analysis to visualise the relationships between segments and demographics.
   
16.30-17.30 Internal Preference Mapping
Definition, examples, testing for significance, product plots, subject plots, interpreting plots,
Correlating sensory and instrumental scores into plots, decision making.
Using in conjunction with cluster analysis
Hands on exercises using XLSTAT

Friday May 9th

9.00-10.30 Linear and quadratic regression ( Simple preference mapping)
Building simple regression models to relate liking to sensory data, linear, quadratic models. Modelling with multivariate sensory data using PCA, vector and ideal point models
   
10.30-11.00 Coffee
   
11.00-12.30 External Preference Mapping.
External preference mapping using XLSTAT-MX. . Using the software to select the correct model for each segment. Scaled versus unscaled external maps. Comparing external and internal preference maps.
Hands on exercises using XLSTAT Prefmap module
   
12.30-13.30 Lunch
   
13.30-14.30 External Preference Mapping
Contour plotting to detect areas of maximum liking
Hands on exercises using XLSTAT
What sensory properties will the desired product have?
Hands on exercise using XLSTAT
Where will a new product fit into the preference map?
Hands on exercise using XLSTAT
   
14.30-15.30 Partial Least Squares Regression
Exercises in XLSTAT-PLS
   
15.30-15.45 Tea
   
15.45-16.00 Preference Modelling - Bringing it all Together
   
16.00 -16.45 Quick Review of new approaches
Kano modelling, path modelling
   
17.00 Close

About the Venue

Cliftons Training Facilities, Level 1, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
T: 0399939999 F: 0399939998 E: melbourne@cliftons.com

In the heart of the central business area, this purpose-built facility will provide us with first class computer training and e-mail facilities and break out lounges.

Visit http://www.cliftons.com/files/cliftons_melbourne_fig_2007.pdf to download a complete facility guide.

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Includes lunches and two dinners, course materials, attendees receive a free copy of XLSTAT 2007, including the preference mapping module, SENPAQ plus a three month licence for Design Express. The combined value of these software programs is over 1000 AUD.

Attendees may bring along their own PC laptops for the exercises and we will install a free copy of XLSTAT2007 and SENPAQ on your computer. (We do not guarantee to load XLSTAT if you have an unusual software configuration.)

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