Training provider: Enterprises University of Pretoria
Training Type: Onsite
Location: Pretoria
Cost: R Contact for more information
On Demand
Course Duration: 2 days
Enhance your expertise in analysing consumer trial data and earn SACNASP CPD points. Update your skills in Consumer Testing Methodology with new analytical techniques and practical experience using real-life data.
Our Hands on XLSTAT Training: Advanced Food Product Testing and Mapping short courses is designed to give you the knowledge and expertise to analyse your own consumer trial data. The course is run using XLSTAT (an easy to use EXCEL addin). The statistical techniques are clearly explained together with examples of applications and comparative merits of the different methods available. We provide both course handouts and step by step practice exercises with annotated solutions.
The aim is to update attendees on recent developments in the fast moving field of Consumer Testing Methodology. New analytical techniques will be presented, where attendees will have the chance to make a small scale trial and analyse real life data using XLSTAT or a range of in-house procedures
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
• Analyse variance, test for differences in average liking between products and simple trend modelling in the context of consumer tests.
• Use simple ways of checking the quality and structure of your data prior to analysis.
• Investigate possible segmentation of consumers in their product preferences, visualising and interpreting the differences using sensory or emotion measures.
Link the typical diagnostic scale data collected using Just about Right (JAR), Check All That Apply (CATA) or intensity scales to hedonic measures to aid product optimisation.
• Build models to predict product liking from sensory data (collected from either trained assessors or the consumers themselves) and optimise the sensory properties of your products.
• As well as learning how to use XLSTAT
Prospective delegates should have at least:
• Some basic statistical knowledge, such as having passed a first-year module
• Basic knowledge and competencies with Microsoft Excel
If you are a food product development manager, quality control
technician, sensory scientist, research and development scientist,
consumer research analyst, market research analyst, food industry
consultant, food testing laboratory technician, statistical analyst, or a
consumer behavior specialist, then this course is designed for you
