Luo Xu,Wang Xi,Bi Kaishun,Xu Xiaojie. On the Establishment,Definition and Education of A New Branch of Chemistry in Statistics[J]. Progress in Chemistry, 1999, 11(02): 173-.
Abstract
Events contributing to the establishment of statistics—the science of data—and its chemical branch are epitomized. As the new chemical branch named chemometrics or chemstatistics has been disputed in the circles of chemistry for along time, reasons for adopting chemstatistics are given, which is defined as the science of gathering or generating, describing, summarizing and interpreting the data concerned to acquire new chemical knowledge or information. The fact that many traditional statistical methods, such as significance tests, analysis of variance, regression and correlation, and some others not usually considered statistical, such as model building, Monte Carlo method, Fourier transformation, artificial nerval networks and pattern recognition, each contains one or more of the five connotations of statistics is expounded. The regular pattern that a chemstatistician grows up is approached. The urgent task is to include chemstatistics in the undergraduate or graduate curriculum of chemistry specialty. The goal of the project is to nurture chemists who know statistics.