Determination of Parameter Uncertainty for Quantitative Analysis of Shaddock Peel Pectin using Linear and Nonlinear Near-infrared Spectroscopic Models

ABSTRACTFourier transform near-infrared spectrometry has been used in combination with multivariate chemometric methods for wide applications in agriculture and food analysis. In this paper, we used linear partial least square and nonlinear least square support vector machine regression methods to establish calibration models for Fourier transform near-infrared spectrometric determination of pectin in shaddock peel samples. In particular, the tunable kernel parameters of the linear and nonlinear models were set changing in a moderate range and were optimally selected in conjunction with a Savitzky–Golay smoother. The smoothing parameters and the linear/nonlinear modeling parameters were combined for simultaneous optimization. To investigate the robustness of calibration models, parameter uncertainty were estimated in a direct way for the optimal linear and nonlinear models. Our results show that the nonlinear least square support vector machine method gives more accurate predictive results and is substant...