“…Furthermore, Xi, Gu, Baniasadi & Raftery (2014) discussed the PLS-DA with applications to metabolites data. Other articles involving the usage of PLS include: Dong, Zhang, Zhu, Wang & Wang (2014) who used PLS to investigate the underlying mechanism of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using microarray data; Gusnanto, Ploner, Shuweihdi & Pawitan 2013, who made gene selection based on partial least squares and logistic regression random-effects (RE) in classification models; gene selection involving PLS was also done by Wang, An, Chen, Li & Alterovitz (2015). The sparse PLS has also been utilized by many researchers; for instance, Chun & Keles (2009),Lee, Lee, Lee & Pawitan (2011) and Chung & Keles (2010) provided an efficient algorithm for the implementation of sparse PLS for variable selection in high dimensional data.…”