Statistics for Food Analysis

This chapter is a review of basic statistics, showing how statistics is used in the context of food analysis. The use of statistics is important in using food analysis data to solve problems and make decisions in the food industry, research, and regulatory or government scenarios. The chapter covers calculation and use of the following statistics terms: mean, standard deviation, Z-score, t-score, and t-test. The chapter includes practice problems, for which the answers are at the end of the lab manual.