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Hands on Sensory Statistics Course

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

Hal MacFie, Anne Hasted,
12 February- 14 February 2008

Venue: Paris: MEDIASITE
42, rue Legendre
75017 Paris
Tél +33 1 47 54 0808
Fax +33 1 47 54 0806

info@mediasite.fr
www.mediasite.fr


Course Organiser
Hal MacFie
Bristol


This course forms a hands-on introduction to those statistical methods needed by a sensory scientist. 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 a free copies of SENPAQ and XLSTAT so they will be competent to start using their expertise from day 1 after the course.

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ABOUT THE LECTURERS

Dr. Hal MacFie is a statistician by training, with an international reputation in the areas of product assessment and consumer research. Author of over 100 scientific publications and three books, he was Head of Consumer Science at the Institute of Food Research, Reading England, before becoming Director of the Institute. Dr. MacFie is now an independent consultant, Visiting Professor at Reading University and European Editor of Food Quality and Preference.

Anne Hasted began her career as an academic statistician at Reading University, leaving in 1989 to set up Qi Statistics Ltd offering statistical training and consultancy support to research and industry. She has wide training and consultancy experience in the food industry, particularly in the area of product improvement.


Course Outline

February 12 Day 1

09.00 - 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 - 14.00 Lunch
   
14.00 -15.00 Panel Monitoring
  Discrimination, Reproducibility, Measuring consistency -partitioning the interaction effects, assessor vs panel mean correlations . Understanding SENPAQ output
  Setting up a Traffic light system for performance monitoring
  Exercises in SENPAQ
   
  Tea
   
  Exercises using XLSTAT and SENPAQ
   
19.30 Dinner in Paris
   
February 13 2008
08.30 - 10.30 Principal Components Analysis of QDA data
  Covariance, Correlation, Interpreting Correlations using cosines
  Geometric interpretation of Principal Components Analysis
  PCA on Sensory data - covariance or correlation?
  Methods to determine dimensionality
  Effect of Outliers, Varimax rotation
  How is PCA different from Factor Analysis?
  Exercises in SENPAQ/XLSTAT
   
  Break
   
11.00 - 12.30 Cluster Analysis, clustering of products and variables to select key sensory attributes
  Similarity/dissimilarity measures
  To standardise or not?
  Agglomerative Hierarchical Classification (AHC)
  Aggregation criteria
  Clustering Products and variables
  Exercises in XLSTAT
   
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
   
14.00-15.30 Multivariate methods to assess Panel Performance and Flash profiling
  Generalised Procrustes Analysis (GPA)
  Application to assess panel performance data
  Multiple Factor Analysis and RV coefficient
  Flash profiling: definition and use
  Analysis of Flash Profiling by GPA
  Exercises in XLSTAT 2006 and GPA using XLSTAT MX
   
  Tea
   
16.00-17.00 Canonical Variates Analysis, Discriminant analysis
  Discriminant Analysis (DA)
  Canonical Variates Analysis (CVA)
  Graphical Displays, Confusion matrices
  Exercises in XLSTAT
   
19.30 Course Dinner
   
February 14 2008
08.30 - 10.30 Relating to instrumental and consumer data 1
  Linear regression, Multiple regression
  Modelling Curvature, Stepwise regression
  Best modelling, Overfitting
  Principal components regression
  Exercises in XLSTAT
   
  Coffee
   
11.00 - 12.30 Relating to instrumental and consumer data 2
  Partial Least Squares regression compared to PCA regression
  Geometric interpretation
  Assessing dimensionality using Cross validation
  Relating sensory to instrumental data
  Relating Liking to sensory data
  Exercises in XLSTAT PLS
   
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
 
14.00-14.30 Shelf-life Testing
  Design of shelf life tests
  Analysis by time point
  Detection of trends
  Survival analysis approaches
  Exercises in XLSTAT
   
  Tea
   
14.30 - 15.00 Time Intensity Studies
  Conduct & training
  Traditional analysis
  Rescaling methods
  Non-centred PCA approaches, recent developments
   
15.15 - 16.15 Revision exercises
Attendees will be given a selection of data sets to test their skills
Worked solutions will be given out.
  Course evaluation
   
  Close

Course Venue


Media Site

For further information, you can contact us by fax, phone or E-mail :

Address : 42 rue Legendre - 75017 Paris - FRANCE
Phone : +33.1.47.54.08.08 - Fax : +33.1.47.54.08.06
E-mail : info@mediasite.fr

We are again using the Purpose Built Multimedia Computer Training Facilities of Mediasite.

With comfortable seating, built In projection and e-mail available from your own computer at breaktime and after the courses, this is a great improvement on Hotel venues.

MATISSE ROOM

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Hotel Accommodation nearby

Mediasite have a web page devoted to hotels: http://www.mediasite.fr/hotels.htm

We are going to stay about 3 minutes walk away at HÔTEL MERCURE * * *
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167 rue de Rome - 75017 Paris
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Registration fees: 2150 euros  
Fees reduced by 25% for members of academia - space limited.
Includes two lunches and two dinners, course materials, attendees receive a free copy of XLSTAT 2007, including the preference mapping module and free access to the SENPAQ software. The combined value of these two programs is 640 Euros. We will also provide you with access to your own individual computer for exercises.
Attendees may bring along their own PC laptops for the exercises and we will install a free copies of XLSTAT and SENPAQ software on your computer. (We do not guarantee to load XLSTAT if you have an unusual software configuration.)
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Mailing address for registration and payment:
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43 Manor Road
Keynsham, Nr Bristol,
BS31 1RB, United Kingdom
Tel/Fax +44 1179 863 590
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