SUBJECT

Title

Chemometrics

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semesters 2-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

Introduction intosinglevariate and multivariatestatisticalanalysis of chemicaldata. Singlevariatestatistics, distributions, statisticalparameters, definitionsinanalyticalchemistry, tests. Multivariatedatastructures, datavectors. Clustering and classification. principalcomponentanalysis. Modelling. OLS regression. Biasedregression. Partialleastsquares. Robust regression. Nonlinearregression. Analysis of variance and covariances. design of experiment.

Readings

Compulsory: Syllabus of thelecturer

  • W. W. Piegorsch and A. J. Bailer, Analyzing environmental data, Wiley, Chichester, 2005
  • S. Dowdy and S. Wearden, Statistics for research, Wiley, Chichester, 1983
  • I.F. Frank and R. Todeschini, The data analysis handbook, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994.