“…As for the optimisation of method precision (repeatability), the Taguchi approach [12], the BoxMeyer approach [13], artificial neural networks [14] or experimental design methodology [15] are strategies that have been used. Further original applications of multivariate strategies to validation have dealt with evaluation of robustness [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31] and intermediate precision [21,25,26,32,33,34].…”