| Responsible Department | Department of Food Science
95 % Århus University 5 % | ||||||||||
| Research School | FOOD Denmark FOOD Denmark. FOOD Denmark will be responsible for the administration of the course. | ||||||||||
| Course Dates | August 20-24, 2012 | ||||||||||
| Course Abstract | This four day course will give a general introduction to chemometrics and provide valuable tools for food scientists to analyze their own multivariate data, which is often derived from complex datasets. The participants will learn how to use basic chemometric techniques and to interpret the results and how the model can be used in future studies. | ||||||||||
| Course Home Page | http://www.lmcfood.dk | ||||||||||
| Course Registration | Online registration via Food Denmark home page: http://lmcfood.dk/courses/food-dk-scientific-courses/ | ||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | See homepage. | ||||||||||
| Credits | 3 (ECTS) 3 with assignment, 2 without assignment (only for participants from industry) | ||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course will take place at the Frederiksberg Campus of the University of Copenhagen | ||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||
| Restrictions | Max. 20 participants. PhD students from the FOOD Denmark Research School, ABS and VLAG are given priority to the course. | ||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||
| -Exploratory data analysis by Principal Component Analysis - Regression models by Partial Leas Squeres Regression - Data treatment: outlier detection, validation, variable selection and pre-processing - Classification by Partial Leas Squeres Discriminant Analysis -Examples from food related research | |||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||
| Four days of intensive lectures including examples from FOOD research. Independent work on personal assignment using the tools learned during the lectures. | |||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||
| After this course participants will: - be able to use basic chemometric techniques -intepret the results obtained from chemometric analysis - use the chemometric tools in their own future studies | |||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||
| Åsmund Rinnan, aar@life.ku.dk, Department of Food Science/Quality and Technology, Phone: 353-33542 | |||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||
| Helene Fast Seefeldt, Århus University | |||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||
| There is no course fee for PhD students from Danish Universities. | |||||||||||
| Course Costs | |||||||||||
| There is no tuition fee for PhD students from Danish Universities, but a material cost fee: Max. DKK 725 for members of FOOD Denmark and VLAG, DKK 1950 for other PhD students, DKK 3975 for other participants from LMC members, DKK 7950 for other participants. For participants from industry the course can be approved without assignment for 2 ECTS with reduced costs. | |||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||
| Written report | |||||||||||
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| Other Remarks | |||||||||||
| FOOD Denmark. FOOD Denmark will be responsible for the administration of the course. | |||||||||||