Research Article

Concomitant Use of Fourier Transform Infrared Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectroscopy and Chemometrics for Quantification of Multiple Adulterants in Roasted and Ground Coffee

Table 4

Optimization of PLS model by detection and removal of outliers.

Model1st2nd3rd4th

Number of calibration samples102928679
Number of validation samples68686854
LV8788
RMSEC (%)1.441.190.820.69
RMSEP (%)2.425.164.762.00
0.990.990.990.99
0.990.960.960.99

LV: latent variables; : calibration correlation coefficient; : validation correlation coefficient.