This important new book provides innovative material, including peer-reviewed chapters and survey articles on new applied research and development, in the scientifically important field of QSAR in medicinal chemistry. QSAR is a growing field because available computing power is continuously increasing, QSAR's potential is enormous, limited only by

This book offers an accessible introduction to application-oriented multivariate methods of data analysis and procedures that are highly beneficial to solving a variety of problems by using analytical chemistry and statistics. It presents a diverse selection of topics that include experimental designs applied for the optimisation of liquid chromatographic and capillary electrophoresis, variable selection in chemical data, calibration of the first order: data, algorithms, and analytical applications, characterisation of polyphenols from natural products using separation techniques coupled with chemometrics, detection of malignant tumors using FT-IR spectroscopy combined with chemometrics, guidelines in synthesis of new anticancer compounds, direct analysis of solid samples by spectroscopy and chromatographic techniques, application of data fusion in different levels with examples, and analysis of pharmaceutical and food products by various analytical techniques. This book helps thereader embrace the growing role of chemometrics in some of the latest research trends, such as characterisation of polyphenolic compounds in natural, pharmaceutical, and food products in analytical problems, such as classification and quantification using the multivariate calibration of the second order. This book also identifies several areas for future development and applications. The chapters are written by leading experts. Chemometrics: Methods, Applications, and New Research offers a reliable source of useful information in a style that is accessible to all levels of students, professionals, and researchers involved in analysing scientific data.

Known as a scientific domain in which the scientist would try to extract information from chemical systems by data-driven means, Chemometrics is a fast spreading field, being applied to solve both descriptive and predictive problems in experimental life sciences, especially in chemistry. It is defined as a highly interfacial discipline, which employs multivariate statistics, applied mathematics, and computer science via using methods frequently employed in core data-analytic, in order to address problems in chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, biology and chemical engineering. Initiated by analysts, now the discipline is widened by other chemistry discipline researches and even those from medical and biological areas. Chemometric techniques are particularly heavily used in analytical chemistry and metabolomics, and the theoretical development of chemometric methods of analysis also continues to advance the state of the art in analytical instrumentation and methodology improvements. It is an application driven discipline, and thus while the standard chemometric methodologies are very widely used industrially, academic groups are dedicated to the continued development of chemometric theory, method and application development.

The book introduces most of the basic tools of chemometrics including experimental design, signal analysis, statistical methods for analytical chemistry and multivariate methods. It then discusses a number of important applications including food chemistry, biological pattern recognition, reaction monitoring, optimisation of processes, medical applications. The book arises from a series of short articles that have been developed over four years on Chemweb (www.chemweb.com).

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Statistical Design-Chemometrics is applicable to researchers and professionals who wish to perform experiments in chemometrics and carry out analysis of the data in the most efficient way possible. The language is clear, direct and oriented towards real applications. The book provides 106 exercises with answers to accompany the study of theoretical principles. Forty two cases studies with real data are presented showing designs and the complete statistical analyses for problems in the areas chromatography, electroanalytical and electrochemistry, calibration, polymers, gas adsorption, semiconductors, food technology, biotechnology, photochemistry, catalysis, detergents and ceramics. These studies serve as a guide that the reader can use to perform correct data analyses.-Provides 42 case studies containing step-by-step descriptions of calculational procedures that can be applied to most real optimization problems-Contains 106 theoretical exercises to test individual learning and to provide classroom exercises and material for written tests and exams-Written in a language that facilitates learning for physical and biological scientists and engineers-Takes a practical approach for those involved in industrial optimization problems

Pattern recognition and other chemometrical techniques are important tools in interpreting environmental data. This volume presents authoritatively state-of-the-art procedures for measuring and handling environmental data. The chapters are written by leading experts.