Title: multiplicative scatter correction
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - multiplicative scatter correction
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.10054
Status: current

Definition
Data pre-processing in which a constant and a multiple of a reference data set is subtracted from data.

Note
MSC is typically used in near-infrared spectrometry to remove effects of non-homogeneous particle size.

Related Term
- Data pre-processing: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10048

Source
- PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 411 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605)

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Citation: Citation: 'multiplicative scatter correction' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10054
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