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. 2011 Jan 11;36(3):237–249. doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjq123

Table 1.

Ranks of perceived distance

Odor pair Task (i) PD Rank Task (ii) PD Rank Task (iii) PD Rank Task (iv) PD Rank Median rank
AM versus BA 0.279 10 0.171 10 0.389 8 0.225 4 9
BA versus HA 0.254 9 0.148 9 0.545 10 0.261 7 9
1-OCT versus BA 0.244 8 0.132a 6 0.417 9 0.240 5 7
3-OCT versus HA 0.227 5 0.144 8 0.327 5 0.263 8 6.5
1-OCT versus AM 0.196 3 0.132b 5 0.359 7 0.280 10 6
1-OCT versus HA 0.215 4 0.143 7 0.355 6 0.222 3 5
AM versus 3-OCT 0.233 6 0.102 2 0.263 3 0.264 9 4.5
1-OCT versus 3-OCT 0.240 7 0.120 4 0.272 4 0.221 2 4
AM versus HA 0.151 1 0.116 3 0.215 2 0.246 6 2.5
3-OCT versus BA 0.188 2 0.027 1 0.146 1 0.139 1 1

For each of the 4 tasks, we assign the indicated odor pair a rank based on perceived distance (PD) (arrows in Figures 3–6); the right-most column presents the median of the obtained ranks for the respective odor pair.

a

0.1327.

b

0.1326.