Research Article

Feasibility Study on the Use of a Portable NIR Spectrometer and Multivariate Data Analysis to Discriminate and Quantify Adulteration in Fertilizer

Table 2

The influence of preprocessing technique on identification models (fertilizer A).

ModelsEvaluationPreprocessing treatment at 5PCs
RawSNVFDSD
TrainTestTrainTestTrainTestTrainTest

RFAccuracy93.7094.7093.5094.6096.5096.5093.7094.70
Error rate6.305.306.505.403.503.506.305.30
Sensitivity96.4096.0095.3094.0096.8097.6096.4096.00
Specificity99.7099.7098.9099.5098.5099.2099.7099.70

SVMAccuracy92.3092.3098.5098.5099.2099.5092.3092.30
Error rate7.707.701.501.500.800.507.707.70
Sensitivity96.3097.1098.5096.8099.2099.5096.3097.10
Specificity92.3092.3097.5097.5099.2099.5092.3092.30