In calibration experiments, a number of samples of known concentration are used to establish the relationship between a measured response and sample concentration; this relationship is then used to estimate the unknown concentration of further samples from their measured responses. In addition to the estimates themselves, it is useful to have available some measure of their precision, usually g...

In this paper, an extrinsic optical fibre sensor (OFS) for the quantitative determination of dyes used in the textile industry is presented. The system proposed is based on absorption spectroscopy and multivariate calibration methods to infer the concentration of different textile dyes. The performance of the sensor has been successfully assessed using calibrated dyes, with a very good correlat...

Four spectrophotometric methods are described and applied to resolve ternary mixtures of the corticosteroid Dexamethasone (DEX), the antibiotic Polymyxin B (PLX) and its encouraging Trimethoprim (TMP). The simultaneous determination of these three compounds was firstly accomplished by a derivative method using the “ratio spectrum-zero crossing derivative” (satisfactory results in synthetic mixt...

Citation: ter Braak, C. J. F. (1995). Non-linear methods for multivariate statistical calibration and their use in palaeoecology: a comparison of inverse (k-nearest neighbours, partial least squares and weighted averaging partial least squares) and classical approaches. Abstract Current environmental problems, such as acid rain and global warming, have greatly increased interest in fossil speci...