As cheddar cheese matures, a variety of chemical processes take place. The taste of matured cheese is related to the concentration of several chemicals in the final product. In a study of cheddar cheese from the LaTrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia, samples of cheese were analyzed for their chemical composition and were subjected to taste tests. Data for one type of cheese manufacturing process appears in the "cheese.dat" dataset. The variables are: case -- observation number taste -- average of taste scores given by several raters; higher is better acetic -- natural log transformation of acetic acid concentration H2S -- natural log transformation of hydrogen sulfide concentration lactic -- concentration of lactic acid (not transformed) The experiments were performed by G.T. Lloyd and E.H. Ramshaw of the CSIRO Divison of Food Research, Victoria, Australia. The data and description are taken from Moore and McCabe, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 3rd ed., WH Freeman, 1999.