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The selected items give a total of 600 possible combinations. Of these, 296 systems were studied in experimental runs, and of these, 162 afforded the Fischer indole reaction. The other systems failed. The successful systems were used for PLS modelling. The reaction were monitored by gas chromatography for 48 h after which time the increase in yield was insignificant. No isomerization occurred. The isomer distribution was determined from the gas chromatograms. The response used for PLS modelling was the regioisometrc excess, RE = Amount of major isomer — Amount of minor isomer. 

A solvent free, fast and environmentally friendly near infrared-based methodology was developed for the determination and quality control of 11 pesticides in commercially available formulations. This methodology was based on the direct measurement of the diffuse reflectance spectra of solid samples inside glass vials and a multivariate calibration model to determine the active principle concentration in agrochemicals. The proposed PLS model was made using 11 known commercial and 22 doped samples (11 under and 11 over dosed) for calibration and 22 different formulations as the validation set. For Buprofezin, Chlorsulfuron, Cyromazine, Daminozide, Diuron and Iprodione determination, the information in the spectral range between 1618 and 2630 nm of the reflectance spectra was employed. On the other hand, for Bensulfuron, Fenoxycarb, Metalaxyl, Procymidone and Tricyclazole determination, the first order derivative spectra in the range between 1618 and 2630 nm was used. In both cases, a linear remove correction was applied. Mean accuracy errors between 0.5 and 3.1% were obtained for the validation set. 

The PLS calibration set was built mixing in an agate mortar different amounts of Mancozeb standard with kaolin, a coadjuvant usually formulated in agrochemicals. Cluster analysis was employed for sample classification and to select the adequate PLS model acording with the characteristics of the sample matrix and the presence of other components. 

Partial least squares regression (PLS). Partial least squares regression applies to the simultaneous analysis of two sets of variables on the same objects. It allows for the modeling of inter- and intra-block relationships from an X-block and Y-block of variables in terms of a lower-dimensional table of latent variables [4]. The main purpose of regression is to build a predictive model enabling the prediction of wanted characteristics (y) from measured spectra (X). In matrix notation we have the linear model with regression coefficients b ... 

The optimal PLS models obtained for the prediction of %DE using the five different spectral sources are listed in Table 2 (see also Fig. 5). The models... 

The optimal spectroscopic PLS models for the degree of esterification of amidated... 

Figure 7. PLS model for (left) pH and (right) Ca2 using the FTIR DR ensemble.

Let us now consider a new set of values measured for the various X-variables, collected in a supplementary row vector x. From this we want to derive a row vector y of expected T-values using the predictive PLS model. To do this, the same sequence of operations is followed transforming x into a set of factor scores r, t 2, t A pertaining to this new observation. From these t -scores y can be... 

A typical performance behaviour is shown in Fig. 44.16b. The increase of the NSE for the monitoring set is a phenomenon that is called overtraining. This phenomenon can be compared to fitting a curve with a polynomial of a too high order or with a PCR or PLS model with too many latent variables. It is caused by the fact that after a certain number of iterations, the noise present in the training set is modelled by the network. The network acts then as a memory, able to recall... 

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%). 

Using our dataset which includes all of the descriptors mentioned so far, we conducted a PLS analysis using SIMCA software [34], In the initial PLS model, MW, V, and a (Alpha) were removed because they are in each case highly correlated with CMR (r > 0.95). SIMCA s VIP function selected only qmin (Qnegmin) for removal on the basis of it making no important contribution to the model. In the second model, 2q+/a (SQpos A) and ECa/a (SCa A) coincided nearly exactly in the three-component space of these two, we decided to keep only ECa/a in the third and final model. This model consisted of three components and accounted for 75% of the variance in log SQ the Q2 value was 0.66. 

The number of segments in the outer and inner loop (. 0ut and sin, respectively) may be different. Each loop of the outer CV results in an optimum complexity (for instance, optimum number of PLS components, Aopt)- In general, these Sout values are different for a final model the median of these values or the most frequent value can be chosen (a smaller complexity would avoid overfitting, a larger complexity would result in a more detailed model but with the risk of overfitting). A final model can be created from all n objects applying the final optimum complexity the prediction performance of this model has been estimated already by double CV. This strategy is especially useful for PLS and PCR. 

PCR is an alternative method to the much more used regression method PLS (Section 4.7). PCR is a strictly defined method and the model often gives a very similar performance as a PLS model. Usually PCR needs more components than PLS because no information ofy is used for the computation of the PCA scores this is not necessarily a disadvantage because more variance of X is considered and the model may gain stability. 

FIGURE 4.24 PLS as a multiple linear regression method for prediction of a property y from variables xi,..., xm, applying regression coefficients b1,...,bm (mean-centered data). From a calibration set, the PLS model is created and applied to the calibration data and to test data. 

The plots with the predicted values and residuals obtained from PLS models are visually very similar to the plots for the PCR results. The R code for PLS is almost identical to the code for PCR shown above, only the argument method has to be changed. 

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