Chemometric tutorials and courses in the Internet

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Chemometric tutorials and courses in the Internet

• -a review

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Main areas of rewiev

• Contents
• which fields of chemometrics are covered
• how thorougly the areas are covered
• practical examples
• Usability
• Visual appearance

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VICIM

• Virtual Institute of Chemometrics and Industrial
  Metrology
• http//www.vicim.com/
• Terminology, e-learning (require registration)
• Tutorials on chemometrics and qualimetrics
• PCR theory, comparative study on methods (PCR,
  MLR, PLS etc.) in .pdf format
• Multivariate Calibration and General Chemometrics
  toolbox available

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VICIM

• Available e-material quite limited in
  multivariate methods
• Wide selection of tutorials as links to articles
• Pdf-file of 74 page could be considered too long
  (especially for on-line usage)

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VICIM appearance
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The University of Akron

• http//ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/chemometrics/index
  .html
• Basic statistics, DoE, regression methods,
  non-linear univariate regression, multivariate
  methods (PCA, MLR, PCR, PLS)
• Classification (SIMCA, K-nearest neighbors)
• Neural networks

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The University of Akron

• A lot of different tutorials based on the lecture
  presentations.
• Slideshows advance in a clear manner.
• Slideshows could have links to more spesific
  areas for skipping, e.g., unwanted examples.

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Akron appearance
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Missouri State University

• http//www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/introbook/s
  bk00.htm
• Introductory statistics concepts, models and
  applications -David W. Stockburger
• Basic statistic concepts
• Well indexed titles
• Theoretically light

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Missouri appearance
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Missouri State University

• http//www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/MultiBook/m
  lt00.htm
• Large book by David W. Stockburger
• Book well indexed by table of contents
• Theoretically light
• Animated illustrations helpful for students with
  a spesific assignment
• 2nd edition offers questions for students

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Missouri appearance II
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• http//www.vub.ac.be/fabi/tutorials.html
• Experimental design, uncertainty
• Multivariate methods, especially PCR
• Neural networks
• Format .pdf / navigation with frames
• Some overlapping with VICIM
• Toolbox available

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Vrije appearance
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Russian Chemometrics Society

• http//chemometrics.ru
• Wide range of chemometric topics from basic level
  to advanced.
• Topics clearly indexed in htmls
• Large collection of presentations
• Great source for multivariate material in russian
  language

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Appearance
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Homepage of Chemometrics (.se)

• http//www.chemometrics.se
• http//www.acc.umu.se/tnkjtg/chemometrics/tutoria
  ls.html
• Wide range of topics in tutorials - available in
  pdf.
• Tutorials theoretical rather than hands-on
  practical
• Also links to other sources

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Appearance
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NIST (National Institute of Standards and
Technology)

• http//www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook
• e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
• Basic statistic principles covered well
• Large area to cover, multivariate methods less
  covered

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Engineering Statistics appearance
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University of Copenhagen

• http//www.models.life.ku.dk/teaching/
• Introduction to
• PARAFAC, N-PLS and Tucker models in chemometrics
• Multi-block models
• PCA, PLS
• Clearly outlined multi-way tutorial with Matlab
  commands
• Other tutorials as .pdfs
• Toolbox available

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Copenhagen appearance
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The University of Silesia, Poland

• Department of Chemometrics
• Links to tutorials in Chemolab
• http//www.chemometria.us.edu.pl/index.php?gototu
  torials

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Ålborg Universitet, Esbjerg

• http//www.acabs.dk/index.asp
• chemometrics
• basic
• advanced (neural networks)
• lecture notes
• exercises
• Intended to users who also listen the lectures

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Ålborg Universitet
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Companies

• Camo
• Self-learning packages
• Multivariate Data Analysis in Practice
• Multivariate Datenanalyse
• http//www.camo.com/training/self-learning-package
  .html
• Umetrics
• SIMCA tutorial in .pdf
• http//www.umetrics.com/default.asp/
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