In the present article, supervised qualitative data modeling is presented as a fundamental branch of pattern recognition, including two main approaches: discriminant classification and class-modeling. The choice of the correct strategy is influenced by the final aim: the discriminant approach is appropriate when at least two classes are...
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2019 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: April 14, 2023
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2012 (v1)Publication
Data mining is usually the last, but not for this less important, step of any food analysis process. It rather represents a critical phase: in fact, a proper data processing allows the extraction of useful information about the system under study from large amounts of collected data – and getting information is usually the main objective in...
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2016 (v1)Publication
Verification of food authenticity is a complex issue that generally involves the determination of many physical or chemical properties. The best way to get useful information from such data is to process them by multivariate pattern recognition methods, which allow consideration of intercorrelations among variables-a key issue for an accurate...
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2019 (v1)Publication
Essential oils (EOs) are volatile chemicals very popular in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry as aromas, fragrances and alternative therapeutic devices. EOs are susceptible to oxidative degradation, loss of quality and alterations of sensory and pharmacological properties with production of smelly or harmful compounds, responsible...
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2013 (v1)Publication
Food PDO verification is a food authenticity issue. It is a challenging analytical problem normally tackled using complex laboratory techniques which produce large or very large data sets. Multivariate mathematical methods are required to process such data sets. A typical question which arises in these applications is "Is sample X, which claims...
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2022 (v1)Publication
From a criminalistic point of view, the accurate dating of biological traces found at the crime scene, together with its compatibility with the estimated crime perpetration timeframe, enables to limit the number of suspects by assessing their alibis and clarifying the sequence of events. The present study delineates, for the first time, the...
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