“…Two chemometric methods, hierarchical clustering analysis and principal component analysis (PCA), have been most widely used in petroleum geochemistry (Eneogwe and Ekundayo, 2003;Farrimond et al, 2015;Hao et al, 2010;Peters et al, 2016) to investigate the problems in oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations (Peters et al, 2005). Chemometric methods used in the study of oil -oil and oil -source rock correlations also include R-and Qmodel factor analysis (Sofer, 1984;Zumberge, 1987;Engel et al, 1988;Chakhmakhchev et al, 1996;Scotchman et al, 1998), star diagram (Justwan et al, 2006;Mashhadi and Rabbani, 2015), K-nearest neighbour (Peters et al, 2000(Peters et al, , 2007(Peters et al, , 2008, multidimensional scaling (MDS) (Wang et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2018a), discriminant analysis (Zhang et al, 2019), and t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (Tao et al, 2020).…”