Tony Davies Back to Basics Columns

Back to Basics: An Introduction to Chemometrics

This series of articles by Tony (A.M.C.) Davies with help from Tom Fearn serve as an excellent introduction to chemometrics, as well as a valuable reminder for the more experienced.

Tony has pointed out that the original Back to Basics series didn’t cover regression well, and has chosen four further columns to fill that gap.

Uncertainty testing in PLS regression

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2001)

Back to basics: the principles of principal component analysis

Vol. 16 No. 6 (2004)

Back to basics: applications of principal component analysis

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2005)

Back to basics: when you need more than Principal Component Analysis

Vol. 17 No. 4 (2005)

Back to basics: observing PLS

Vol. 17 No. 6 (2005)

Back to basics: calibration statistics

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2006)

Back to basics: preparing for PLS calibration

Vol. 18 No. 4 (2006)

Back to basics: running your first PLS calibration

Vol. 18 No. 6 (2006)

Back to basics: spectral pre-treatments, derivatives

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2007)

Back to basics: removing multiplicative effects (1)

Vol. 19 No. 4 (2007)

Back to basics: the "final" calibration

Vol. 19 No. 6 (2007)

Back to basics: qualitative analysis, introduction

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2008)

Back to basics: multivariate qualitative analysis, canonical variates analysis

Vol. 20 No. 4 (2008)

Back to basics: multivariate qualitative analysis, SIMCA

Vol. 20 No. 6 (2008)

A digression on regression

Vol. 22 No. 6 (2010)

Variable selection for regression analysis: an up-date on an old problem

Vol. 24 No. 6 (2012)

The last furlong (4). Multi-variable regression

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2014)

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