Twenty tasters on one bottle do not establish twenty-batch consistency. This is an Academy application of the design principle, not a completed whiskey trial.
Sensory Evaluation Techniques, fifth edition. Printed page locators; main-text PDF sheet=printed page+31.
The experimental unit and sampling plan determine the range of inference. Replication at the assessment level cannot substitute for sampling independent production units.
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Chapter14, experimental design; PDF421–429
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Located Evidence
The experimental unit and sampling plan determine the range of inference. Replication at the assessment level cannot substitute for sampling independent production units.
Interpretation And Boundary
Twenty tasters on one bottle do not establish twenty-batch consistency. This is an Academy application of the design principle, not a completed whiskey trial.
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