There are three main multi-way models: PARAFAC and Tucker for decompositions and N-PLS for calibration. N- PLS and Tucker are numerically stable and can hence be used as ordinary two-way methods without considering convergence etc. However, these models are not unique. The PARAFAC model is unique under mild conditions, but numerically it is sometimes unstable. Therefore one has to check convergence by doing multiple runs.
Otherwise the models can be interpreted and used very similar to two-way methods like PCA and PLS. The main obstacle is the confusion arising from handling the three-way data as they are stored in MATLAB as two-way matrices.
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The material in this course and in the N-way Toolbox are given for free. However, we do appreciate appropriate referencing if you use our stuff. If you wish to refer to this WWW-course use the following:
R. Bro The N-way on-line course on PARAFAC and PLS http://www.models.life.ku.dk/courses/; 1998
The N-way tutorial
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