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While there will be much more extensive discussions in later chapters on the topic of analyzer calibration, I will try to give you a quick snapshot here on how NIR analysis is done. The first step is to have a valid sample set, normally 30-50 samples covering the range of interest. The spectra are collected and a correlation is built between the wavelengths and their corresponding absorbencies and the reference analysis of these samples. The chemometric tools used in developing calibrations are discussed in Chapter 8. This is just the first step in developing a calibration but many people make the mistake of... 

Our experience in learning chemometrics and teaching it to others has demonstrated repeatedly that people learn new techniques by using them to solve interesting problems. For this reason, many of the contributing authors to this book have chosen to illustrate their chemometric methods with examples using... 

All these people have some interest in data analysis or chemometrics, but approach the subject in radically different ways. Writing a text that is supposed to appeal to a broad church of scientists must take this into account. The average statistician likes to build on concepts such as significance tests, matrix least squares and so on. A... 

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