I am looking for analytical signals (spectra, chromatograms) consisting of overlapping peaks which can be approximated by Gaussians. I want to evaluate the errors of decomposition of these signals into elementary components.
I do not know the sites, where these signals are available for free downloads. Usually I will try to establish the contacts with experimentalists that work in some interesting areas of physics, chemistry and solve their problems that they have.
Yes, I think that the Hugh's answer is not relevant. Any model data created by PC program can serve as the test digital signals. I support my previous opinion: any interesting treatment of real data is really interesting! Moving in this direction one can have a possibilitity to find some hidden physical\chemical effects.
The *.jdx format can be converted into ASCIIs via GRAMS/AI (http://www.thermoscientific.com/en/product/grams-ai-spectroscopy-software.html) or Essential FTIR (for IR) (http://www.essentialftir.com/), however they are not free of charge.
Please bear in mind that such as chemometric analysis we have performed toward, for example, IR-spectra in [ref. 1-3], Raman spectra [Ref.2-5], UV-VIS, CD and fluorescence spectra in [Ref. 6], and chromatograms [Ref.5]. As far as the UV-patterns are symmetric the Gaussian function fits well the results, however for Raman and Chromatograms (often), we have used mixed-functions (Gauss-Lorentz) along with Boltzmann function (mixed to it also) and more. In addition we have tested the effect of smoothing using different approaches (Savitzky-Golay, Adjacent-averaging), signal-to-noise ratio, deconvolution as approach for determination of the number of sub-bands and more. The shown examples are only few ones.
[Ref. 1] Ivanova, B.; Tsalev, D.; Arnaudov, M. (2006) Validation of reducing-difference procedure for the interpretation of non-polarized infrared spectra of n-component solid mixtures, Talanta 69, 822-828.
[Ref. 2] Koleva, B.; Kolev, T.M.; Spiteller, M. (2008) Determination of cephalosporins in solid binary mixtures by polarized IR- and Raman spectroscopy, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 48, 201-204.
[Ref. 3] Koleva, B.; Kolev, T.; Tsalev, D.; Spiteller, M. (2008) Determination of phenacetin and salophen analgetics in solid binary mixtures with caffeine by infrared linear dichroic and Raman spectroscopy
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 46, 267-273.
[Ref. 3.] Lamshoft, M.; Ivanova, B.; Spiteller, M. (2011) Chemical identification and determination of sulfonamides in n-component solid mixtures within THz-region-solid-state Raman spectroscopic and mass spectrometric study, Talanta, 85, 2562-2575.
[Ref. 4] Ivanova, B., Spiteller, M. (2012) On the chemical identification and determination of flavonoids in solid-state, Talanta, 94C, 9-21
[Ref. 5] Ivanova, B., Spiteller, M. (2012) Quantitative solid-state Raman spectroscopic method for control of fungicides, Analyst, 137, 3355-3364
[Ref. 6] Ivanova, B., Spiteller, M. (2012) Quantitative analysis of the substituted N,N-dimethyl-tryptamines in the presence of natural alkaloids of type XII Natural Product Communications, 7(10) 1273-1276
you can download FTIR and FTRaman spectra in www.riodbol.ibase.net it give structure and some data as well as some information for your experimental work and theoretical work in gaussian