Mathematical Methods for Chemical Analysis

The availability of fast, cheap and accessible data processing is encouraging analysts to employ standard statistical evaluation of results, which previously have been very time-consuming to undertake, and to explore new ways of extracting the maximum amount of chemical information from the analytical data. This last is a 

The range of methods and their scope is shown by the symposium arranged by Kowalski9) and the books of Massart, Dijkstra and Kaufman 10), and Kateman and Pijpers n . For the purpose of discussion they may be grouped as (i) statistical — quality control (ii) improvement in quality of signal (iii) improvement in quality of the method (iv) extraction of analytical information. 

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