Fundamentals and Analytical Applications of Multi-way Calibration

AC OLIVIERI,; G ESCANDAR,; GOICOECHEA H C; MUÑOZ DE LA PEÑA, A

Elsevier

Año: 2015 p. 591

978-0-444-63527-3

As a popular story goes, a representative of a shoes making factory visits a village of the distant country Barefootland, with the purpose of opening new markets, only to discover that people in town do not use any shoes. He then moves to other cities, finding the same hopeless reality. Greatly disappointed, he finally sent this message to the central factory: "don?t send any shoe here, these people don?t need them." After some time, another shoes seller from a different country visits Barefootland, finds the same people wearing no shoes, but sends this exciting message to the headquarters: "please urgently send as many shoes as you can, these people need them!". This is just one version of the story, which includes sellers from many different countries. It is supposed to teach that great opportunities can be missed if one does not have the right attitude. Precisely the purpose of editing this book is to follow the example of the second shoes seller, and try to contribute to make multi-way calibration popular. We strongly believe that if multi-way calibration is not widespread enough among analytical chemists, it is not because they do not need it. We also think it is the duty of chemometricians and analytical chemists using multi-way calibration to disseminate the multi-way philosophy and its specific techniques to the analytical community. Opening the analytical chemistry market would make a difference both ways. Analytical chemists will fully incorporate a set of powerful calibration tools into their protocols, and at the same time chemometricians will get the bonus of myriads of interesting real-world challenges.