A Short Primer on Chemometrics for Spectroscopists [ October 1, 2005]
As any spectroscopist will tell you, getting useful results from a set of spectral data is not always straightforward. Whether it's problems with determining the precise amounts of the components in a mixture or the similarity of the spectral responses from those components, there are many challenges that the analytical scientist must face. And so now, spectroscopists are increasingly turning to chemometrics as a powerful statistical tool to help them get more meaningful information from their spectral data.
In this primer, Professor Steven Brown of the Chemometrics Research Group at the University of Delaware gives us an introduction to what chemometrics is, and just what it can do for the analytical scientist.
As any spectroscopist will tell you, getting useful results from a set of spectral data is not always straightforward. Whether it's problems with determining the precise amounts of the components in a mixture or the similarity of the spectral responses from those components, there are many challenges that the analytical scientist must face. And so now, spectroscopists are increasingly turning to chemometrics as a powerful statistical tool to help them get more meaningful information from their spectral data.