Class-modelling of overlapping classes. A two-step authentication approach.

Honeybush is an indigenous herbal tea highly valued for its aroma, flavour and medicinal properties. It is protected as Geographical Indication (GI) since it is produced from a number of Cyclopia species that are endemic to South Africa. Most commonly used for honeybush tea production are C.

Different strategies for class model optimization. A comparative study.

The Class Modelling (CM) approaches like Soft Independent Modelling of Class Analogy (SIMCA) aim at developing a mathematical model for determination of belongingness of new samples to the studied classes. The main feature of CM is that for each target class an individual model is constructed. CM is widely exploited, e.

Working with log-ratios.

Instrumental signals of samples cannot be compared and/or analysed directly if their concentrations are unknown. Differences in overall concentration need to be removed at the data normalization step. The choice of normalization method has a profound effect on the final results of data analysis, and especially on biomarker identification.