In a recent publication, Faber (J. Chemometrics 2000; 15: 171-190) criticiz
es the use of a jackknife procedure as proposed by Bijlsma et al. (Anal. Ch
im. Acta 1998; 376: 339-355). It is shown that this criticism is not correc
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