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Statistical Methods for Analyzing Color Differences

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Author(s)

Maria E. Nadal, Carl C. Miller, Hugh Fairman

Abstract

Multi-valued measurands, such as spectral reflectance or transmission, tristimulus values, are usually analyzed by reducing the data to a single-valued parameter, such as color difference. The variations of sets of color differences are non-normal distributed. This paper compares five statistical methods to determine the 95% confidence interval on three data sets of color differences.
Citation
Color Research and Application
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

ASTM, Color Differences, Color Uncertainties, Color Values, Interlabolatory study

Citation

Nadal, M. , Miller, C. and Fairman, H. (2011), Statistical Methods for Analyzing Color Differences, Color Research and Application, [online], https://doi.org/10.1002/col.20622 (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created June 2, 2011, Updated November 10, 2018
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