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Table 1 Percentage match (Mean ± standard deviation) between different Gulf of Mexico sources against MW injections for PTM with the optimal choice of peak ratio threshold \((\tau =1.65)\) and for PCA with two principal components

From: Interpreting comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography using peak topography maps with application to petroleum forensics

Method

MW (%) vs. MW (%)

Eugene Island (%) vs. MW (%)

Southern Louisiana Crude (SLC) (%) vs. (MW) (%)

Natural seep (%) vs. (MW) (%)

PTM

\(99.23 \pm 1.66\)

\(85.83 \pm 3.70\)

\(59.28 \pm 13.34\)

\(52.55 \pm 1.94\)

PCA

\(99.76 \pm 0.26\)

\(91.98 \pm 0.14\)

\(91.71 \pm 0.24\)

\(98.01 \pm 0.51\)