WaterTaste: WaterTaste

In Lock5withR: Datasets for 'Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data'

Description

Blind taste test to compare brands of bottled water

Format

A data frame 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 perference: 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 different four different types of water (Sam's Choice, Aqufina, 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

References

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n1/lunsford.pdf

Examples

data(WaterTaste)

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