{"term":{"id":"06975","title":"partial least squares","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - partial least squares","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.PT06975","code":"PT06975","status":"current","initialism":"<em>initialism<\/em>: PLS","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Partial least squares projection to latent structures (PLS) is a robust multivariate generalized regression method using projections to summarize multitudes of potentially collinear variables.","sources":["PAC, 1997, 69, 1137. 'Glossary of terms used in computational drug design (IUPAC Recommendations 1997)' on page 1148 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac199769051137)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/PT06975\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/PT06975\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/PT06975\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'partial least squares' 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.PT06975","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-10T04:30:32+00:00"}}