Equivalence tests are becoming increasingly popular in many application areas including
sensory sciences. They should be applied whenever the aim of the study is not to show …

Equivalence tests are an alternative to traditional difference‐based tests for demonstrating a
lack of association between two variables. While there are several recent studies …

Sensory testing and measurement are the main functions of sensory analysis. In recent
years, the sensory and consumer field has evolved to include both difference testing and …

The analysis of choice data in which no difference/preference responses, or ties, occur is
considered in this paper. A key issue addressed in the paper is the need for “identicality …

This paper discusses similarity tests using forced‐choice methods in terms of Thurstonian
discriminal distance, d′, a measure of pure sensory difference or similarity. Critical values …

A necessary step in applying bi-factor models is to evaluate the need for domain factors with
a general factor in place. The conventional null hypothesis testing (NHT) was commonly …

In statistical applications, such as a comparison of two items, it is useful to know whether one
item is equivalent to another. Similarly it is often desirable to know whether one item can act …

This article introduces the application of equivalence hypothesis testing (EHT) into the
Empirical Software Engineering field. Equivalence (also known as bioequivalence in …

The search for minimum clique coverings of graphs appears in many practical guises and
with several possible minimization goals. One reasonable goal is to minimize the number of …

This chapter gives an overview of discrimination test methods, starting with the purpose of
this group of sensory tests. Various test methods are classified into sorting, matching …