“…In food science and technology, applied statistics is widely used for numerous purposes: design of experiments, modeling of response variables using response surface methodology, and recently, the application of multivariate statistical methods to unravel technological problems and to better understand complex experimental data (Farris & Piergiovanni, 2009;Nunes et al, 2014;Ortea & Gallardo et al, 2015). In this sense, undoubtedly, descriptive analysis (i.e., calculation of means, median, correlation, linear regression, standard deviation, among others) followed by inferential statistics (i.e., analysis of variances and multiple comparison of means) are the most frequently used methods (Kumar, Bansal, Sarma, & Rawal, 2014).…”