Table 3. The modeling results of various quality attributes for the combined meat cuts using the PLSR method
| Qualities | Preprocessing methods | LVs | Calibration | Prediction |
| Rc | RMSEC | Rp | RMSEP |
| pH | Original spectra | 10 | 0.56 | 0.12 | 0.49 | 0.22 |
| MSC | 9 | 0.82 | 0.04 | 0.81 | 0.06 |
| SNV | 9 | 0.82 | 0.04 | 0.81 | 0.07 |
| 1st Der | 9 | 0.68 | 0.10 | 0.44 | 0.30 |
| 2nd Der | 10 | 0.70 | 0.10 | 0.64 | 0.07 |
| S-G smoothing | 12 | 0.55 | 0.11 | 0.52 | 0.20 |
| CIE L* | Original spectra | 11 | 0.81 | 1.82 | 0.81 | 1.87 |
| MSC | 11 | 0.88 | 1.61 | 0.83 | 1.94 |
| SNV | 10 | 0.88 | 1.61 | 0.84 | 1.87 |
| 1st Der | 7 | 0.85 | 1.30 | 0.76 | 2.36 |
| 2nd Der | 7 | 0.86 | 1.79 | 0.75 | 2.92 |
| S-G smoothing | 11 | 0.84 | 1.70 | 0.82 | 1.89 |
| CIE a* | Original spectra | 10 | 0.71 | 0.81 | 0.69 | 1.00 |
| MSC | 13 | 0.82 | 0.78 | 0.55 | 0.99 |
| SNV | 12 | 0.82 | 0.78 | 0.55 | 1.25 |
| 1st Der | 5 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.46 | 1.34 |
| 2nd Der | 5 | 0.60 | 1.20 | 0.46 | 1.98 |
| S-G smoothing | 10 | 0.83 | 0.85 | 0.78 | 1.35 |
| CIE b* | Original spectra | 7 | 0.88 | 1.02 | 0.76 | 1.46 |
| MSC | 9 | 0.83 | 0.89 | 0.82 | 1.00 |
| SNV | 10 | 0.83 | 0.90 | 0.82 | 0.99 |
| 1st Der | 5 | 0.79 | 1.04 | 0.70 | 1.13 |
| 2nd Der | 4 | 0.57 | 1.03 | 0.52 | 1.52 |
| S-G smoothing | 8 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.88 |
| Cooking loss | Original spectra | 10 | 0.85 | 2.71 | 0.76 | 3.09 |
| MSC | 8 | 0.92 | 1.83 | 0.78 | 2.90 |
| SNV | 8 | 0.92 | 1.82 | 0.78 | 2.90 |
| 1st Der | 7 | 0.94 | 1.62 | 0.86 | 1.80 |
| 2nd Der | 4 | 0.83 | 2.77 | 0.75 | 3.25 |
| S-G smoothing | 12 | 0.85 | 2.73 | 0.79 | 3.10 |
| Shear force | Original spectra | 10 | 0.88 | 3.44 | 0.84 | 5.89 |
| MSC | 10 | 0.90 | 2.36 | 0.87 | 3.41 |
| SNV | 10 | 0.90 | 2.36 | 0.88 | 3.41 |
| 1st Der | 5 | 0.81 | 4.18 | 0.75 | 5.56 |
| 2nd Der | 5 | 0.84 | 3.43 | 0.68 | 6.34 |
| S-G smoothing | 9 | 0.87 | 3.38 | 0.83 | 3.91 |
| Protein | Original spectra | 10 | 0.74 | 0.80 | 0.67 | 1.05 |
| MSC | 10 | 0.84 | 0.65 | 0.83 | 0.80 |
| SNV | 10 | 0.85 | 0.63 | 0.80 | 0.79 |
| 1st Der | 5 | 0.83 | 0.75 | 0.62 | 1.07 |
| 2nd Der | 6 | 0.62 | 1.00 | 0.52 | 2.18 |
| S-G smoothing | 9 | 0.76 | 0.82 | 0.66 | 1.05 |
| Fat | Original spectra | 9 | 0.86 | 1.49 | 0.84 | 1.88 |
| MSC | 9 | 0.86 | 1.49 | 0.84 | 1.85 |
| SNV | 9 | 0.86 | 1.49 | 0.84 | 1.85 |
| 1st Der | 7 | 0.93 | 1.03 | 0.83 | 1.68 |
| 2nd Der | 5 | 0.87 | 1.45 | 0.65 | 2.56 |
| S-G smoothing | 11 | 0.92 | 1.18 | 0.82 | 1.99 |
| Moisture | Original spectra | 10 | 0.81 | 1.66 | 0.79 | 2.86 |
| MSC | 8 | 0.92 | 1.05 | 0.87 | 1.54 |
| SNV | 8 | 0.92 | 1.05 | 0.86 | 1.55 |
| 1st Der | 7 | 0.88 | 2.75 | 0.61 | 3.09 |
| 2nd Der | 6 | 0.68 | 2.77 | 0.52 | 3.25 |
| S-G smoothing | 12 | 0.79 | 2.73 | 0.75 | 3.65 |
PLSR, partial least squares regression; LVs, the number of latent variables; Rc, correlation coefficient of calibration set; RMSEC, the root mean squared error of calibration set; Rp, correlation coefficient of prediction set; RMSEP, the root mean squared error of prediction set; MSC, multiplicative scatter correction; SNV, standard normalized variate; 1st Der, first derivative; 2nd Der, second derivative; S-G, Savitzky-Golay.