simulation function

Simulate virtual panels

simulation(axeAFM, nbchoix = NULL, nbgroup = 1, nbsimul = 500)

Arguments

• axeAFM: matrix
• nbchoix: Number of panelists in a virtual Panel
• nbgroup: Number of groups (by default 1 for a PCA)
• nbsimul: number of simulations

Details

Called by the simulation procedure

References

Husson, F., Le Dien, S. & Pages, J. (2005). Confidence ellipse for the sensory profiles obtained by Principal Components Analysis. Food Quality and Preference. 16 (3). pp. 245-250.

Author(s)

Francois Husson

Examples

data(chocolates)
donnee <- cbind.data.frame(sensochoc[,c(1,4,5:18)])
axe <- construct.axes(donnee, scale.unit = TRUE)
simul <- simulation(axe)
plotellipse (simul, alpha = 0.05, eig = signif(axe$eig,4))