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Esbensen, K., Geladi, P. J. Chemom. 4, 1990, 389-412. The start and early history of chemometrics Selected interviews. Part 2. 

Biomarker Identification using Chemometrics Selected Applications of Metabonomics... 

Chemometrics, in the most general sense, is the art of processing data with various numerical techniques in order to extract useful information. It has evolved rapidly over the past 10 years, largely driven by the widespread availability of powerful, inexpensive computers and an increasing selection of software available off-the-shelf, or from the manufacturers of analytical instruments. 

The variable selection methods have been also adopted for region selection in the area of 3D QSAR. For example, GOLPE [31] was developed with chemometric principles and q2-GRS [32] was developed based on independent CoMFA analyses of small areas of near-molecular space to address the issue of optimal region selection in CoMFA analysis. Both of these methods have been shown to improve the QSAR models compared to original CoMFA technique. 

Procedures used vary from trial-and-error methods to more sophisticated approaches including the window diagram, the simplex method, the PRISMA method, chemometric method, or computer-assisted methods. Many of these procedures were originally developed for HPLC and were apphed to TLC with appropriate changes in methodology. In the majority of the procedures, a set of solvents is selected as components of the mobile phase and one of the mentioned procedures is then used to optimize their relative proportions. Chemometric methods make possible to choose the minimum number of chromatographic systems needed to perform the best separation. 

If we consider only a few of the general requirements for the ideal polymer/additive analysis techniques (e.g. no matrix interferences, quantitative), then it is obvious that the choice is much restricted. Elements of the ideal method might include LD and MS, with reference to CRMs. Laser desorption and REMPI-MS are moving closest to direct selective sampling tandem mass spectrometry is supreme in identification. Direct-probe MS may yield accurate masses and concentrations of the components contained in the polymeric material. Selective sample preparation, efficient separation, selective detection, mass spectrometry and chemometric deconvolution techniques are complementary rather than competitive techniques. For elemental analysis, LA-ICP-ToFMS scores high. 

Wold, S., Kettaneh, N., and Tjessem, K., Hierarchical multiblock PLS and PC models for easier model interpretation and as an alternative to variable selection, J. Chemometrics 10, 463 (19%). 

Sinha, A.E., Hope, J.L., Prazen, B.J., Fraga, C.G., Nilsson, E.J., Synovec, R.E. (2004a). Multivariate selectivity as a metric for evaluating comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-fhght mass spectrometry subjected to chemometric peak deconvolution. J. Chromatogr. A 1056, 145-154. 

So we seem to have identified a key characteristic of chemometric modeling that influences the capabilities of the models that can be achieved not nonlinearity per se, because simple nonlinearity could be accommodated by a suitable transformation of the data, but differential nonlinearity, which cannot be fixed that way. In those cases where this type of differential, or non-uniform, nonlinearity is an important characteristic of the data, then selecting those wavelengths and only those wavelengths where the data are most nearly linear will provide better models than the full-spectrum methods, which are forced to include the non-linear regions as well, are capable of. 

A total of 185 emission lines for both major and trace elements were attributed from each LIBS broadband spectrum. Then background-corrected, summed, and normalized intensities were calculated for 18 selected emission lines and 153 emission line ratios were generated. Finally, the summed intensities and ratios were used as input variables to multivariate statistical chemometric models. A total of 3100 spectra were used to generate Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) models and test sets. 

Models, for process control, 20 687-691 Model selection, in chemometrics, 6 50-52 Model silicone networks, 22 569-570 Mode of a distribution, 18 135 Moderately toxic substances, 23 113 Moderately volatile materials, distribution ratios of, 23 213 Moderate molecular weight polyisobutylene, 4 434 Moderator, nuclear reactor, 17 569 Modem Plastics Encyclopedia, 19 543 Modem Plastics World Encyclopedia,... 

This book is the result of a cooperation between a chemometrician and a statistician. Usually, both sides have quite a different approach to describing statistical methods and applications—the former having a more practical approach and the latter being more formally oriented. The compromise as reflected in this book is hopefully useful for chemometricians, but it may also be useful for scientists and practitioners working in other disciplines—even for statisticians. The principles of multivariate statistical methods are valid, independent of the subject where the data come from. Of course, the focus here is on methods typically used in chemometrics, including techniques that can deal with a large number of variables. Since this book is an introduction, it was necessary to make a selection of the methods and applications that are used nowadays in chemometrics. 

Chemometrics has been defined as A chemical discipline that uses statistical and mathematical methods, to design or select optimum procedures and experiments, and to provide maximum chemical information by analyzing chemical data. In shorter words it is focused as Chemometrics concerns the extraction of relevant information from chemical data by mathematical and statistical tools. Chemometrics can be considered as a part of the wider field chemoinformatics which has been defined as The application of informatics methods to solve chemical problems (Gasteiger and Engel 2003) including the application of mathematics and statistics. 

The early history of chemometrics is documented by published interviews with Bmce R. Kowalski, D. Luc Massart, and Svante Wold who can be considered as the originators of modem chemometrics (Esbensen and Geladi 1990 Geladi and Esbensen 1990). A few, subjectively selected milestones in the development of chemometrics are mentioned here as follows ... 

The most reliable approach would be an exhaustive search among all possible variable subsets. Since each variable could enter the model or be omitted, this would be 2m - 1 possible models for a total number of m available regressor variables. For 10 variables, there are about 1000 possible models, for 20 about one million, and for 30 variables one ends up with more than one billion possibilities—and we are still not in the range for m that is standard in chemometrics. Since the goal is best possible prediction performance, one would also have to evaluate each model in an appropriate way (see Section 4.2). This makes clear that an expensive evaluation scheme like repeated double CV is not feasible within variable selection, and thus mostly only fit-criteria (AIC, BIC, adjusted R2, etc.) or fast evaluation schemes (leave-one-out CV) are used for this purpose. It is essential to use performance criteria that consider the number of used variables for instance simply R2 is not appropriate because this measure usually increases with increasing number of variables. 

Variable selection is an optimization problem. An optimization method that combines randomness with a strategy that is borrowed from biology is a technique using genetic algorithms—a so-called natural computation method (Massart et al. 1997). Actually, the basic structure of GAs is ideal for the purpose of selection (Davis 1991 Hibbert 1993 Leardi 2003), and various applications of GAs for variable selection in chemometrics have been reported (Broadhurst et al. 1997 Jouan-Rimbaud et al. 1995 Leardi 1994, 2001, 2007). Only a brief introduction to GAs is given here, and only from the point of view of variable selection. 

Since the value of H depends on the choice of , modifications of this procedure have been proposed (Fernandez Piema and Massart 2000). Another modification of the Hopkins statistic—published in the chemometrics literature—concern the distributions of the values of the used variables (Hodes 1992 Jurs and Lawson 1991 Lawson and Jurs 1990). The Hopkins statistic has been suggested for an evaluation of variable selection methods with the aim to find a variable set (for instance, molecular descriptors) that gives distinct clustering of the objects (for instance, chemical structures)—hoping that the clusters reflect, for instance, different biological activities (Lawson and Jurs 1990). 

Lippa, K.A., Sander, L.C., and Wise, S.A., Chemometric stndies of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon shape selectivity in reversed-phase liqnid chromatography. Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 378, 365, 2004. 

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