Olive Oil Data Set

Data set consisting of 572 rows and 10 columns containing data about olive oil.

data("olive")

Format

A data.frame() with 10 columns:

Area:

(larger) area.

Region:

(local) region.

palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, arachidic, eicosenoic:

the fatty acids measured.

Source

The data set was obtained from the package pdfCluster (for convenience). It contains 572 rows of observations. The first and the second column correspond to the area (Centre-North, South, Sardinia) and the geographical region of origin of the olive oils (northern Apulia, southern Apulia, Calabria, Sicily, inland Sardinia and coast Sardinia, eastern and western Liguria, Umbria), respectively. The remaining columns represent the chemical measurements (on the acid components for the oil specimens) palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, arachidic, eicosenoic.

Examples

data("olive")