AVERAGETABLE: Computes a (products,descriptors) matrix
Description
Returns the (products,descriptors) matrix with
entries the means over panelists and sessions.
Computes analyses of variance automatically for a given model and a set of quantitative variables.
Returns a data matrix where each row is associated with each
category of a given categorical variable (in most cases, the categorical variable is the
product variable), each column is associated with a quantitative variable, and each cell is
the corresponding adjusted mean or mean.
Computes the average data table with respect to a categorical variable and a set
of quantitative variables.
Details
The formul parameter can be filled in for a given analysis of variance model.
The formul parameter must begin with the categorical variable of interest (generally the product variable)
followed by the different other factors (and their combinations) of interest.
E.g.: formul = "~Product+Panelist+Product:Panelist".
In practise and in our type of applications, this function is very useful to obtain a data matrix
in which rows represent products and columns represent sensory descriptors.
If "mean" is assigned to the method parameter, then the formul parameter
can be restricted to the sole variable of interest (generally the product variable).
If data are balanced, the two options "mean" and "coeff" give the same results.
Outputs
Return a matrix of dimension (p,q), where p is the number of categories of the qualitative variable
of interest (in most cases, p is the number of products)
and q is the number of (sensory) descriptors. If "coeff" is assigned to the
method parameter then the function averagetable returns the matrix
of the adjusted means; if "mean" is assigned to the
method parameter
then the function averagetable returns the matrix of the means per category.
| method="coeff" | averagetable(chocolates, formul="~Product+Panelist", firstvar=5) | |
| method="mean" | averagetable(chocolates, method="mean", formul="~Product", firstvar=5) |