Limit of detection for second-order calibration methodsMARÍA JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ CUESTA
Doctoral Thesis
ROVIRA I VIRGILI UNIVERSITY
Tarragona 2006Table of contents
Chapter 1. DESCRIPTION OF THE THESIS
1.1. Motivation ................................................................................... -3-
1.2. Objectives .................................................................................... -4-
1.3. Structure ..................................................................................... -6-
1.4. Notation and list of symbols ...................................................... -8-
Chapter 2. INTRODUCTION TO CHEMOMETRICS
2.1. Types of data and instruments used in Analytical Chemistry-13-
2.1.1. Historical Background........................................................................-13-
2.1.2. Tensor Terminology...........................................................................-14-
2.1.3. The Concepts of Bilinearity and Trilinearity .......................................-17-
2.1.4. Deviations from Linearity ...................................................................-20-
2.2. Calibration methods.................................................................... -22-
2.2.1. From Zeroth- to Second-order Calibration.........................................-22-
2.2.2. Resolution and Calibration Methods for Second-Order Data.............-27-
2.2.2.1 Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) ...................................-31-
2.2.2.2 Iterative Target Transformation Factor Analysis (ITTFA).....-35-
2.2.2.3 Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares
(MCR-ALS) ..........................................................................-38-
2.2.2.4 Multi-linear Partial Least Squares (N-PLS) ..........................-41-
2.2.3. Uniqueness, Indeterminacies and Constraints ..................................-44-
2.3. Validation of Analytical Methods .............................................. -50-
2.3.1. What is Method Validation? ..............................................................-50-
2.3.2. Figures of Merit. International Recommendations .............................-51-
2.3.3. Analytical Detection ......................................................................... -55-
2.3.3.1 Hypothesis Testing ............................................................ -55-
2.3.3.2 Critical Level and Detection Limit ...................................... -56-
2.3.3.3 Limit of Detection from Linear Calibration Curves............... -58-
2.3.3.4 Limit of Detection in Multivariate Calibration ....................... -61-
ter 3. ESTIMATION OF THE LOD FOR PARAFAC
3.1. Introduction..................................................................................-69-
3.2. Paper.............................................................................................-73-
Determination of Carbendazim, Fuberidazole and Thiabendazole by Three-
Dimensional Excitation–Emission Matrix Fluorescence and Parallel Factor
Analysis. Analytica Chimica Acta 491: 47-57 (2003)
Chapter 4. ESTIMATION OF THE LOD FOR ITTFA
4.1. Introduction..................................................................................-95-
4.2. Paper.............................................................................................-99-
Influence of Selectivity and Sensitivity Parameters on Detection in
Multivariate Curve Resolution of Chromatographic Second-Order Data.
Analytica Chimica Acta 476: 111-122 (2003)
Chapter 5. ESTIMATION OF THE LOD FOR MCR-ALS
5.1. Introduction..................................................................................-125-
5.2. Paper.............................................................................................-129-
Development and Validation of a Method for Determining Pesticides in
Groundwater from Complex Overlapped HPLC Signals and Multivariate
Curve Resolution. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 77(1-
2): 251-260 (2005)
Chapter 6. ESTIMATION OF THE LOD FOR N-PLS
6.1. Introduction ................................................................................. -157-
6.2. Paper............................................................................................. -161-
Standard Error of Prediction at Low Content Levels and Limit of Detection
Estimation for Multivariate and Multi-linear Regression. (In press)
Chapter 7. CONCLUSIONS
7.1. Introduction ................................................................................. -193-
7.2. Conclusions ................................................................................ -193-
APPENDIX
References ........................................................................................... -201-
Glossary and abbreviations.................................................................. -211-
List of papers and meeting contributions ............................................. -221-
Limit of detection for second-order calibration methods