| ANN-MLP | Artificial Neural Network with Multilayer Perception |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| BOSS | Bootstrapping soft shrinkage |
| CA | Cluster analysis |
| CAR/PDMS | Carboxen/Polydimethylsiloxane |
| CARS | Competitive adaptive reweighted sampling |
| CI | Univariate conformity index |
| DA | Discriminant analysis |
| DVB/CAR/PDMS | Divinylbenzene/Carboxen/Polydimethylsiloxane |
| EEC | European Community |
| EVOO | Extra virgin olive oil |
| FA | Fatty acid |
| FDA | Factorial discriminant analysis |
| FT-IR | Fourier transform infrared |
| GCXGC-TOFMS | Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography and Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry |
| GC-FID | Gas chromatography with flame ionization detection |
| GC-ITMS | Gas chromatography-ion trap mass spectrometry |
| GC-MS | Gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry |
| HCA | Hierarchical cluster analysis |
| HS-SPME | Headspace solid-phase microextraction |
| IOC | International olive oil council |
| IRIV | Iteratively retaining informative variables PLS |
| IRMS | Isotope ratio mass spectrometry |
| k-NN | K-Nearest Neighbor Analysis |
| LA | Linoleic acid |
| LDA | Linear discriminant analysis |
| LOX | Lipoxygenase |
| MADOVA | Multivariate Analysis of Variance |
| MCUVE | Monte Carlo uninformative variable elimination |
| MDGC | Multidimensional gas chromatography |
| MDS | Multidimensional scaling |
| MIR | Mid-infrared |
| MLR | Multiple linear regression |
| MUFAs | Monounsaturated fatty acids |
| NIRS | Near-infrared spectroscopy |
| NMR | Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| OO | Olive oil |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| PDMS/DVB | Polydimethylsiloxane/ Divinylbenzene |
| PDO | Protected Designation of Origin |
| PLS | Partial least squares regression |
| PLS-DA | Partial least square regression-Discriminant analysis |
| PLS-R | Partial least. Squares regression |
| POA | Palmitoleic acid |
| PUFAs | Polyunsaturated fatty acids |
| QDA | Quadratic discriminant analysis |
| RMSEC | Root means square error of calibration |
| RMSECV | Root Mean Square Error of Cross-Validation |
| RMSEP | Root Mean Squared Error of Prediction |
| RRS | Resonant Raman spectroscopy |
| SIMCA | Soft Dependent Modelling of Class Analogies |
| SAFA | Saturated fatty acids |
| SLDA | Stepwise linear discriminant analysis |
| SLRA | Stepwise linear regression analysis |
| SPME | Solid phage microextraction |
| SVM-C | Support vector machine using parameter C |
| VIP | Variable Importance of Projection |
| VOO | Virgin olive oil |