Chemometrics
A Practical Guide
Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation
1. Edition April 1998
XII, 348 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Chemometrics encompasses a variety of statistical tools used to effectively design, analyze and interpret experimental data. The field has evolved rapidly over the last several years due to the widespread availability of powerful, inexpensive computers and available software packages. The topic is an area of great current interest to chemists, allowing them to improve the results from their analytical techniques without resulting to major equipment upgrades. However, there are relatively few introductory level books available. This book provides lab technicians and newcomers to the techniques with a practical guide to using chemometrics.
An outstanding practical guide to the most common chemometric methods in use today
Chemometrics explains how to apply the most widely used pattern recognition and multivariate calibration techniques to solve data analysis problems. This practical guide describes all key methods in terms of processes and applications in order to help the reader easily identify the best technique for a given situation.
Drawing on years of industrial experience with chemometric tools, the authors share their six basic steps, or "habits," for achieving reliable chemometric results, and cover key areas such as:
* Defining and understanding the problem
* Experimental planning and design
* Preprocessing of samples and variables
* Supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition
* Classical and inverse methods of multivariate calibration
Complete with helpful chapter-end summaries, technical references, and more, this book is an invaluable hands-on resource for analytical chemists and laboratory scientists who use chemometrics in their work.
Defining the Problem.
Preprocessing.
Pattern Recognition.
Multivariate Calibration and Prediction.
References.
Index.
RANDY J. PELL and MARY BETH SEASHOLTZ are chemometricians in the Process Analytical Research and Development group with The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan.
