triangle.design {SensoMineR}

Construct a design for triangle tests

Description

Construct a design to make triangle tests.

Usage

triangle.design (nbprod , nbpanelist, bypanelist = nbprod*(nbprod-1)/2,
   labprod=1:nbprod, labpanelist=1:nbpanelist)

Arguments

nbprod

number of products to compare

nbpanelist

number of panelists who make the triangle test

bypanelist

number of expermient that each panelist can done (by default each panelist make all the comparisons between the products

labprod

name of the products (by default, the product are coded from 1 to the number of products

labpanelist

name of the panelists (by default, the panelists are coded from 1 to the number of panelists

Details

Triangle test: panelists receive three coded samples. They are told that two of the sample are the same and one is different. Panelists are asked to identify the odd sample.

Value

Returns an data.frame of dimension (t,3), where t is the number of experiments. In column 1, 2 and 3 the product to test are given. The product in column 1 is by coded "X", in column 2 is coded by "Y" and in column 3 is coded by "Z". Panelist should start by product "X", then "Y" and then by "Z".

Author(s)

Francois Husson

See Also

triangle.test, triangle.pair.test

Examples

##Example 1
design1 = triangle.design (nbprod = 4, nbpanelist = 8)

##Example 2
design2 = triangle.design(nbprod = 4, nbpanelist = 6, bypanelist = 3,
  labprod=c("prod1","prod2","prod3","prod4"),
  labpanelist=c("John","Audrey","Peter","Martina","James","Lisa"))