Appendix N : A Regression-Based Approach for Testing Significance of JAR Variable Penalties / Dave Plaehn, John Horne.

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• Book

Author/Creator:

• Plaehn, Dave, author.
• Horne, John, author.

Contributor:

• American Society for Testing and Materials.
• ASTM International.

Series:

• Journal of ASTM International. Manual Series ; MNL11495M.
• ASTM manual series ; MNL11495M

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Consumers--Research--Statistical methods--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Consumer goods--Evaluation--Statistical methods--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Quality of products--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

• 1 online resource (6 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables.
• Volume 2009, Issue 63 (January 2009)

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ASTM digital library.

Place of Publication:

West Conshohocken, Pa. : ASTM International, 2009.

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• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file PDF

Summary:

Traditional penalty analysis attempts to relate JAR variable responses to overall liking or some other reference variable. No variance estimates are calculated around the penalties or mean drops, and as a result, significance testing is not done. Consequently, this method does not give any gauge of reliability or importance of the results. Focus is often placed on large penalties that are also associated with a large proportion of respondents; 20 % of respondents on a given side of a Just About Right point (e.g., Too Much or Too Little) is frequently used as a minimum standard of importance. We propose a regression-based approach to better understand which penalties are important for a given product. This approach recodes JAR variable scores into indicator (dummy) variables in order to address the non-linear nature of the typical JAR variable scale (the middle category as Just About Right and the other categories as some degree of Too Much or Too Little). Regression coefficients resulting from the indicator variables are analogous to mean drops of the reference variable. Significance testing can be done on these coefficients parametrically by using the standard error estimates from the regression model itself; semi-parametrically by using standard error estimates from methods such as jackknife and bootstrap; or non-parametrically, for example, by forming confidence intervals from the distribution of a large number of bootstrap samples. All of these methods are presented below. While some parts of this approach can be used to test multiple products and attributes simultaneously, we will consider only one JAR variable/product combination at a time. Along the way we will prove that the regression coefficients from ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression are identical to the traditional penalties assuming the so-called JAR mean is used to determine the penalties.

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• "ASTM Stock Number: MNL11495M".
• Includes bibliographical references 4.
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• 9780803167391 (e-ISBN)
• 9780803170100
• 0803170106

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