Comment on a recently proposed resampling method

A recently introduced resampling method for determining the contribution of measurement errors to the standard error in bilinear and trilinear model estimates is critically examined. Using Monte Carlo simulations, it is shown that this method does not work as intended. A noise addition method is proposed as a generally applicable alternative. The principles involved in applied work are illustrated on real UV-vis data taken from the literature. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.