ConsumerCheck: A Software for Analysis of Sensory and Consumer Data
This provides a tool for researchers and practitioners in sensory and consumer science, but it is incremental as it packages existing methods into a user-friendly interface.
The authors developed ConsumerCheck, an open-source software with a graphical user interface for analyzing sensory and consumer data, enabling non-statisticians to use methods like PCA, PLSR, and PCR without programming skills.
ConsumerCheck is an open source data analysis software tailored for analysis of sensory and consumer data. Since some of the implemented methods are generic, such as PCA, PLSR and PCR, other data from other domains may also be analysed with ConsumerCheck. The software comes with a graphical user interface and as such provides non-statisticians and users without programming skills free access to a number of widely used analysis methods within the field of sensory and consumer science. Computational results are presented in plots that are easily generated from the tree-controls within the graphical user interfaces. Since the construction of conjoint analysis models is not always straightforward, ConsumerCheck provides three previously defined model structures of different complexity. ConsumerCheck is an ongoing research project and the objective is to implement further statistical methods over time.