“…Electronic sensors generate a vast volume of data; therefore, it is necessary to apply methods of data analyses, which allows for data classification [ 33 , 34 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 ]. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimension reduction technique, which creates a few new variables, called principal components (PCs), from the linear combinations of the original variables, allowing the distribution of samples and variables to be easily plotted and visually analyzed, using the Euclidean distance as a similarity metric [ 61 , 62 , 63 ]. In order to discriminate between the different honey varieties, a SIMCA (Soft Independent Modeling Class Analogy) method has been developed.…”