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. 2018 Jan 11;8:2264. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02264

Table 2.

A contingency table of the proportions of selection by 79 participants for individual sensory attribute terms among coffee samples evaluated at the three different temperatures.

Terms1 Sample temperatures
Q-value P-value Cramér’s V value
5°C 25°C 65°C
Aroma
Pungent 0.19a 0.06b 0.14ab 6.08 0.049 0.15
Roasted 0.35b 0.52ab 0.54a 6.86 0.03 0.17
Taste/flavor
Metallic 0.33a 0.22ab 0.15b 7.74 0.02 0.17
Roasted 0.33b 0.37b 0.63a 18.00 <0.001 0.27
Skunky 0.19a 0.06b 0.08b 9.58 0.01 0.18
Bitter taste 0.84a 0.84a 0.67b 8.05 0.02 0.19

Cochran’s Q-test (Cochran, 1950), using the exact probability and distribution of the Q statistic (Patil, 1975), was performed to determine whether the proportions of participant selection for individual terms of sensory check-all-that-apply (CATA) question could differ by sample temperature. The proportions with different letters within each row represent a significant difference determined by post hoc multiple pairwise comparisons using the Marascuilo procedure (Marascuilo and McSweeney, 1967). Cramér’s V value was used to measure strength of association between two nominal variables (sample temperature × selected/unselected case) for the contingency table. Cramér’s V values, ranging from 0 (no association between the variables) to 1 (perfect association), of 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 were considered small, medium, and large associations, respectively (Cohen, 1988). 1Only significant terms, determined by Cochran’s Q-test, among 49 sensory attribute terms were shown (P < 0.05).