“…Many algorithms in the domain of statistical learning, machine learning, and chemometrics have demonstrated utility in building calibration models with spectra measurements: neural networks (Long et al, 1990;Walczak and Massart, 2000), Gaussian process regression , support vector regression (Thissen et al, 2004;Balabin and Smirnov, 2011), principal components regression (Hasegawa, 2006), ridge regression (Hoerl and Kennard, 1970;Tikhonov and Arsenin, 1977;Kalivas, 2012), wavelet regression (Brown et al, 2001;Zhao et al, 2012), functional regression (Saeys et al, 2008), partial least squares 30 (Rosipal and Krämer, 2006); among others. There is no lack of algorithms for supervised learning with continuous response variables that can potentially be adapted for such an application (Hastie et al, 2009).…”