Unreliability of clustering results in sensory studies and a strategy to address the issue Rajesh Kumar and Edgar Chambers IV

Unreliability of clustering results in sensory studies and a strategy to address the issue Rajesh Kumar and Edgar Chambers IV* Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics, and Health, Center for Sensory Analysis and Consumer Behavior, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States Researchers commonly use hierarchical clustering (HC) or k-means (KM) for grouping products, attributes, or consumers. However, the results produced by these approaches can differ widely depending on the specific...