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An Algorithm for Discriminant Analysis of Mass Spectra—ADAMS—was created that classified aerosol mass spectra into dominant chemically-assigned classes, and grouped rare cases in an outlier class. ADAMS was trained with ambient particulate matter (PM) mass spectra, and then validated through classification tests on known spectra with random noise added, various standard chemicals, and salt-spiked polystyrene latex microspheres. The classification results showed that ADAMS gave a reasonable chemical description of the particle populations. In contrast to adaptive resonance theory (ART-2a) classification, ADAMS could be trained to be advantageously sensitive or insensitive to selected chemical markers. Application of ADAMS to Toronto ambient PM and diesel PM (NIST 2975) demonstrated that these samples could be well described, with a low proportion of the cases falling into the outlier class. Such an algorithm may find application for source-receptor modeling of aerosol mass spectra.
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Tan, P.V., Malpica, O., Evans, G.J. et al. Chemically-assigned classification of aerosol mass spectra. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 13, 826–838 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1044-0305(02)00379-3
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