Evaluation of complementary numerical and visual approaches for investigating pairwise comparisons after principal component analysis

John Castura/ June 1, 2023/ Peer-reviewed Paper/ 0 comments

We propose and evaluate numerical and visual methods for investigating paired comparisons after principal component analysis (PCA). PCA results can be visualized to facilitate an understanding of the relationships between the products and the sensory attributes. But identifying and visualizing significant product differences in multiple PCs simultaneously is not straightforward. A benefit of the proposed methods is that they provide

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Investigating paired comparisons after principal component analysis

John Castura/ January 24, 2023/ Peer-reviewed Paper/ 0 comments

Principal component analysis (PCA) is often used to explore sensory and consumer test data about products on multicollinear sensory attributes. In this paper, we propose an approach for investigating paired comparisons between products and their uncertainties in the principal components. We use the truncated total bootstrap (TTB) procedure to simulate virtual panels from the original data set. The virtual-panel results

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