Transfer of calibrations

M. Forina,G. Drava,C. Armanino,etal, Transfer of calibration function in near-infrared spectroscopy. Chemom. Intell. Lab. Syst., 27 (1995) 189-203. 

The above example, of course, is relatively abstract and academic , and as such perhaps not of too much interest to the majority. Another example, with more practical application, is transfer of calibration models from one instrument to another. This is an endeavor of enormous current practical importance. Witness that hardly a month passes without at least one article on that topic in one or more of the analytical or spectroscopic journals. Yet all those reports are the same Effect of Data Treatment ABC Combined with Algorithm XYZ Compared to Algorithm UVW or some such they are all completely empirical studies. In themselves there is nothing wrong with that. The problem is that there is nothing else. There are no critical reviews summarizing all this work and extracting those aspects that are common and beneficial (or common and harmful, for that matter). 

Transfer of calibrations Difficult Difficult Relatively easy... 

P. J. Clancy. Transfer of calibration between on-farm whole grain analyzers. In Near Infrared Spectroscopy Proceedings of the 10th International Corference on Near Irfrared Spectroscopy, Kuonjgu, Korea, R. K. Cho, A. M. C. Davies, eds. NIR Pnblications, Chichester, UK, 2002. 

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