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Estimation of the chemical rank for the three-way data: a principal norm vector orthogonal projection approach
Xie Hong-Ping1, Jiang Jian-Hui, Shen Guo-Li
1Laboratory for Chemometrics and Chemical Sensing Technology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A new approach for estimating the chemical rank of the three-way array called the principal norm vector orthogonal projection method has been proposed. The method is based on the fact that the chemical rank of the three-way data array is equal to one of the column space of the unfolded matrix along the spectral or chromatographic mode. A vector with maximum Frobenius norm is selected among all the column vectors of the unfolded matrix as the principal norm vector (PNV). A transformation is conducted for the column vectors with an orthogonal projection matrix formulated by PNV. The mathematical rank of the column space of the residual matrix thus obtained should decrease by one. Such orthogonal projection is carried out repeatedly till the contribution of chemical species to the signal data is all deleted. At this time the decrease of the mathematical rank would equal that of the chemical rank, and the remaining residual subspace would entirely be due to the noise contribution. The chemical rank can be estimated easily by using an F-test. The method has been used successfully to the simulated HPLC-DAD type three-way data array and two real excitation-emission fluorescence data sets of amino acid mixtures and dye mixtures. The simulation with added relatively high level noise shows that the method is robust in resisting the heteroscedastic noise. The proposed algorithm is simple and easy to program with quite light computational burden.
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