Table 1.

Actual and predicted mean particle size of chitosan nanoparticles samples with PLS-NAS algorithm for independent test set.

Sample	Actual	Predicted by PLS-NAS
1	41	42.18
2	41	42.12
3	74.87	73.29
4	74.87	74.44
5	51.52	43.36
6	51.52	44.76
7	37.6	38.70
8	68.72	68.65
9	73.33	69.40
10	73.33	70.20
11	58.71	57.35
12	41.38	40.39
13	38.5	36.44
a RMSE		3.59
R 2		0.98

^a Root Mean Square Error.