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Several multivariate statistical methods (discriminant, factor and cluster analysis) have been applied to analytical data for major volatile components, volatile esters and carboxylic acids collected from various rum samples in order to distinguish between genuine rum of a well known and expensive brand and other less expensive rums.
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Herranz et al. (1990) studied this question.
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