Chemometrics: A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation) [Hardcover]

Kenneth R. Beebe (Author), Randy J. Pell (Author), Mary Beth Seasholtz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471124516 | ISBN-13: 978-0471124511 | Publication Date: March 31, 1998 | Edition: 1

An outstanding practical guide to the most common chemometric methods in use today

Chemometrics explains how to apply the most widely used pattern recognition and multivariate calibration techniques to solve data analysis problems. This practical guide describes all key methods in terms of processes and applications in order to help the reader easily identify the best technique for a given situation.

Drawing on years of industrial experience with chemometric tools, the authors share their six basic steps, or "habits," for achieving reliable chemometric results, and cover key areas such as:
* Defining and understanding the problem
* Experimental planning and design
* Preprocessing of samples and variables
* Supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition
* Classical and inverse methods of multivariate calibration

Complete with helpful chapter-end summaries, technical references, and more, this book is an invaluable hands-on resource for analytical chemists and laboratory scientists who use chemometrics in their work.

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"...probably the best introductory text that I have read on the subject...I would recommend this book for an introductory course...whithout the slightest hesitation." (Microchemical Journal, Vol. 69, 2001)

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Chemometrics encompasses a variety of statistical tools used to effectively design, analyze and interpret experimental data. The field has evolved rapidly over the last several years due to the widespread availability of powerful, inexpensive computers and available software packages. The topic is an area of great current interest to chemists, allowing them to improve the results from their analytical techniques without resulting to major equipment upgrades. However, there are relatively few introductory level books available. This book provides lab technicians and newcomers to the techniques with a practical guide to using chemometrics.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (March 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471124516
• ISBN-13: 978-0471124511
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,298,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chemometrics for the near-beginner, August 25, 2002

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Alan D. Eastman (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chemometrics: A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation) (Hardcover)

The authors have put together a supremely useful guide to actually using chemometric techniques, as opposed to academic research. Consequently, my copy is getting dog-eared from frequent use. Perhaps the most helpful part of the book is the multitude of tables that explain when each different technique might best be used, and how to understand and interpret the diagnostics that arise from the calculations. The table of questions to ask BEFORE an experiment is worth the price of the book. If you're trying to write new chemometric algorithms, buy something else. But if you're trying to apply chemometric techniques in the 'real world' with the highest information-to-effort ratio, you need a copy of this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A "Users Guide" to chemometrics, April 28, 2006

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Jonathan Lightner "Dr. Lightnerd" (Des Moines, IA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chemometrics: A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation) (Hardcover)

Chemometrics by Beebe et al. is my first recommendation to colleagues interested in the successful use and theory of chemometrics. It is a user focused book with theory sufficient to guide the appropriate and informed use of chemometric techniques in a variety of analyses. It is a "hard read" in the best sense of that phrase. You will probably have to work at getting through this book, but you do not need a degree in mathematics to understand and enjoy it.

If you are using one of the many "shrink wrapped" chemometrics software packages available today, and you are troubled by these techniques great utility, and your limited understanding of the underlying theory, Beebe is a great a place to start.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, well written book, December 28, 2000

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B. Wilson "BEW" (Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chemometrics: A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation) (Hardcover)

Admittedly, I'm biased as the authors are friends. However, this is one of the best books on chemometrics, particularly for those who have some exposure to the subject and wish to learn more. The authors have drawn on their years of experience explaining complex results to non-expert clients to present some complex mathematical ideas in an understandable fashion.