“…The full set of papers within the discrimination group used a range of statistical techniques to distinguish the e-nose profiles of the samples as follows: 9 used principal component analysis (PCA) (Aliaño-González et al , 2018b; Bieganowski et al , 2018; Falatová et al , 2018; Ferreiro-González et al , 2017; Kumar et al , 2020; Osowski and Siwek, 2017; Singh et al , 2016; Siqueira et al , 2018; Wu et al , 2020), 9 used linear discriminant analysis (LDA) (Aliaño-González et al , 2018a, 2018b; Amini and Hosseini-Golgoo, 2012; Calle et al , 2020; Falatová et al , 2018, 2021; Ferreiro-González et al , 2016, 2017; Mahmodi et al , 2019), 7 used artificial neural networks (ANN) (Amini and Hosseini-Golgoo, 2012; Bieganowski et al , 2018; Kumar et al , 2020; Singh et al , 2016; Siqueira et al , 2018; Song et al , 2011; Wu et al , 2020), 7 used hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA) (Aliaño-González et al , 2018a, 2018b; Calle et al , 2020; Falatová et al , 2018, 2021; Ferreiro-González et al , 2016, 2017), 3 used quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) (Mahmodi et al , 2019; Siqueira et al , 2018, 2019), 3 used support vector machine (SVM) (Mahmodi et al , 2019; Osowski and Siwek, 2017; Song et al , 2011) and 3 used stochastic analysis (Siqueira et al , 2018, 2019; Vidigal et al , 2021). Other methods mentioned were autoregressive moving average with exogenous inputs (ARMAX) (Amini and Hosseini-Golgoo, 2012), wavelet analysis (Osowski and Siwek, 2017) and random forest analyses (Osowski and Siwek, 2017).…”