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. 2014 Feb 4;9(2):e87818. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087818

Table 2. Performance of PLS, SVM and BPNN models for predicting firmness and TSS.

Calibration Prediction
Parameter Method Spectra SEC r SEP r
Firmness(N) PLS VIS 0.518 0.91 0.451 0.93
NIR 0.859 0.81 0.943 0.67
Whole 0.504 0.91 0.421 0.94
SVM VIS 0.149 0.94 0.674 0.76
NIR 1.523 0.78 0.794 0.72
Whole 0.112 0.94 0.532 0.78
BPNN VIS 0.599 0.90 0.436 0.93
NIR 0.677 0.87 0.713 0.87
Whole 0.424 0.93 0.375 0.94
TSS (°Bx) PLS VIS 0.776 0.64 0.638 0.73
NIR 0.783 0.55 0.795 0.67
Whole 0.712 0.81 0.575 0.76
SVM VIS 0.756 0.67 0.784 0.60
NIR 2.780 0.48 0.855 0.42
Whole 0.361 0.92 0.775 0.62
BPNN VIS 0.721 0.59 0.656 0.78
NIR 0.753 0.58 0.705 0.74
Whole 0.506 0.76 0.573 0.83