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Hindawi, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, (2013), p. 1-7, 2013

DOI: 10.1155/2013/267360

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Modeling the Antioxidant Capacity of Red Wine from Different Production Years and Sources under Censoring

Journal article published in 2013 by Lorentz Jäntschi, Radu E. Sestraş ORCID, Sorana D. Bolboacă
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The health benefit of drinking wine, expressed as capacity to defend the human organism from the free radicals action and thus reducing the oxidative stress, has already been demonstrated, and the results had been published in scientific literature. The aim of our study was to develop and assess a model able to estimate the antioxidant capacity (AC) of several samples of Romanian wines and to evaluate the AC dependency on the vintage (defined as the year in which wine was produced) and grape variety under presence of censored data. A contingency of two grape varieties from two different vineyards in Romania and five production years, with some missing experimental data, was used to conduct the analysis. The analysis showed that the antioxidant capacity of the investigated wines is linearly dependent on the vintage. Furthermore, an iterative algorithm was developed and applied to obtain the coefficients of the model and to estimate the missing experimental value. The contribution of wine source to the antioxidant capacity proved equal to 11%.