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 5

Comparison of the performances of models based on DRIFTS and FTIR-ATR.

Optimized modelsDRIFTS [10]FTIR-ATR

Number of calibration samples8879
Number of validation samples4454
LV108
RMSEC (%)1.610.69
RMSEP (%)2.342.00
0.990.99
0.980.99

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