Abstract
Chemometrics – the science of extracting information from chemical systems using multivariate and mathematics methods – when applied to geochemical and human health data can reveal unique relations. As a tutorial for chemometric analysis of geochemical data and linked medical data, this chapter presents a brief survey of approaches that can be used to reveal new insights into the interdependencies of geochemistry and human health.
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I would like to thank all of my chemometrics students, past and present, for listening to me babble on about this stuff. Also I thank L. T. and C. M. for providing data for this chapter. I also thank “OnTheHub” for providing access, at an affordable price, to various and sundry statistical software packages.
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Hannigan, R.E. (2013). Chemometrics and Medical Geochemistry: A Brief Tutorial. In: Censi, P., Darrah, T., Erel, Y. (eds) Medical Geochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4372-4_7
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