| FTIR | Fourier-transform infrared |
| CP | crude protein |
| NDF | neutral detergent fibre |
| ADF | acid detergent fibre |
| PLSR | partial least squares regression |
| RFR | random forest regression |
| BP | back-propagation |
| BC | baseline correction |
| CARS | competitive adaptive reweighted sampling |
| SG1D | first-derivative Savitzky–Golay preprocessing |
| SG | Savitzky–Golay preprocessing |
| MSC | multiplicative scatter correction |
| airPLS | adaptive iteratively reweighted penalised least squares |
| SPA | successive projections algorithm |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| RPD | residual predictive deviation |
| RMSE | root mean square error |
| R2 | coefficient of determination |