“…The pre-processed dataset (or the whole spectrum) is then analyzed using multivariate statistical methods. Such methods include cluster analysis (CA) [2,5,9,11,12,17,18], discriminant analysis (DA) [1,3,4,6,7,9,20,21], principal component analysis (PCA) [1,3,[5][6][7][8][14][15][16][17]20,21], partial least square analysis (PLS) [3,6,10,15,16,18,19] or a combination of these methods.…”