Abstract: A method that employs self-reliant gas chromatography for determining a measure of match between acquired gas chromatographic data representative of a sample and reference gas chromatographic data, the acquired gas chromatographic data includes at least one observed chromatographic peak, the reference gas chromatographic data includes at least one reference chromatographic peak, the at least one observed chromatographic peak and the at least one reference chromatographic peak are characterized by at least one temporal attribute and at least one shape attribute, the method includes at least the procedure of: estimating respectively, for said at least one observed chromatographic peak, said measure of match according to a degree of fitness between an observed value and respective a reference value of said at least one shape attribute.

Abstract: Method employing gas chromatography for determining a measure of match between chromatographic data respective of a sample and reference data, the method includes the procedures of acquiring the chromatographic data, determining a plurality of parameters in a modeling function so as to substantially fit the modeling function to the chromatographic data, the modeling function defined as a sum of a linear combination of probability distribution functions, and estimating the measure of match according to a degree of fitness between the modeling function and the chromatographic data.