. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 24.

Published in final edited form as: Food Chem Toxicol. 2018 May 9;118:328–339. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2018.05.013

Table 5.

Comparison of conclusions from each method to determine sufficient similarity of GBE samples to the reference GBE. Bolded letters indicate samples that were classified consistently across all methods and italicized letters indicate samples that were not.

Method	Call	Samples (most to least similar/different)
Weight-of- evidence	Similar	Y = Z > X = U > T > K = N > L = Q = R = V = W > J > D = E = I
	Maybe similar	O = S
	Different	G > A = B = C = F = H > M > P
Equivalence testing	Similar	W > X > Y > Z > U^* > K > L > Q > O > N > T > S > J > E > D > U^* > I > R > P > V
Equivalence testing	Different	H > C > F > M > B > G > A
Visual interval evaluation	Similar	Z > Y > X > U > W > T > V > L > I > K > O > D > Q > E > S > N > R > J
Visual interval evaluation	Different	H > G > F > C > B > A > M > P

Sample U was run twice in targeted chemical evaluation and exhibited slightly different constituent concentrations between runs.