Table 2. Various statistical parameters and figures of merit of the developed models.

Para.	SVM		MLR		PLS
	Training set	Testing set	Training set	Testing set	Training set	Testing set
N	79	19	79	19	79	19
RMSE	0.316	0.276	0.685	0.544	0.703	0.547
R 2	0.935	0.728	0.553	0.464	0.529	0.461
Q 2	0.905	—	0.404	—	0.441	—