WaterTaste: WaterTaste

Description Format Details Source

Description

Blind taste test to compare brands of bottled water

Format

A dataset with 100 observations on the following 10 variables.

Gender Gender of respondent: F=Female M=Male
Age Age (in years)
Class Year in school F=First year J=Junior O=Other P SO=Sophomore SR=Senior
UsuallyDrink Usual source of drinking water: Bottled, Filtered, or Tap
FavBotWatBrand Favorite brand of bottled water
Preference Order of preference: A=Sams Choice, B=Aquafina, C=Fiji, and D=Tap water
First Top choice among Aquafina, Fiji, SamsChoice, or Tap
Second Second choice
Third Third choice
Fourth Fourth choice

Details

Result from a blind taste test comparing four different types of water (Sam's Choice, Aquafina, Fiji, and tap water). Participants rank ordered waters when presented in a random order.

Source

"Water Taste Test Data" by M. Leigh Lunsford and Alix D. Dowling Finch in the Journal of Statistics Education (Vol 18, No, 1) 2010
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n1/lunsford.pdf


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