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Several supervised (stepwise discriminant analysis (SDA), statistical isolinear multi category analysis (SZMCA) and nearest neighbour analysis ( K N N ) ) and unsupervised (principal components analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA)) classification techniques have been applied to analytical data jiom different whisky samples in order to distinguish between genuine whisky of a well known and expensive brand and other less expensive whiskies that could be used to replace the original contents of the bottle.