Use of Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics to distinguish blue ballpoint pen inks

Forensic Science International

Volumn 249, Issue , 2015, Pages 73-82

  de Souza Lins Borba, Flávia ^a   Saldanha Honorato, Ricardo ^b   de Juan, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Polícia Federal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ballpoint pen ink analysis; Chemometrics; Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA); Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS DA); Principal component analysis (PCA); Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BALLPOINT PEN INK ANALYSIS; CHEMOMETRICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WRITING;

EID: 84922470913     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.01.027     Document Type: Article

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