Fourty five ancient Korean glass pieces have been determined for 19 elements such as Ag, As, Br, Ce, Co, Cr, Eu, Fe, Hf, K, La, Lu, Na, Ru, Sb, Sc, Sm, Th and Zn, and for one such as Pb by instrumental neutron activation analysis and by atomic absorption spectrometry, respectively. The multivariate data have been analyzed for the relation among elemental contents through the variance-covariance matrix. The data have been further analyzed by a principal component mapping method. As the results training set of 5 class have been chosen, based on the spread of sample points in an eigen vector plot and archaeological data. The 5 training set consisting of 36 species and a test set consisting of 9 species bave finally been analyzed for the assignment to certain classes or outliers through the statistical isolinear multiple component analysis (SIMCA). The results have showed the whole species for 5 training set and 3 species in the test set are assigned appropriately and these are in accord with the results by principal component mapping.
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