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oil: Fatty acid composition of commercial oils

Description

Fatty acid concentrations of commercial oils were measured using gas chromatography. The data is used to predict the type of oil. Note that only the known oils are in the data set. Also, the authors state that there are 95 samples of known oils. However, we count 96 in Table 1 (pgs. 33-35).

Usage

data(oil)

Value

• fattyAcids
  data frame of fatty acid compositions: Palmitic, Stearic, Oleic, Linoleic, Linolenic, Eicosanoic and Eicosenoic. When values fell below the lower limit of the assay (denoted as
• oilType
  factor of oil types: pumpkin (A), sunflower (B), peanut (C), olive (D), soybean (E), rapeseed (F) and corn (G).

source

Brodnjak-Voncina et al. (2005). Multivariate data analysis in classification of vegetable oils characterized by the content of fatty acids, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Vol. 75:31-45.