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. 2021 Feb 26;32(6):982–991. doi: 10.1002/pca.3040

TABLE 3.

Results of method validation

Compounds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Regression equation (y) (3.80 × 107)x − 5.72 × 104 (2.35 × 108)x − 1.45 × 105 (1.14 × 109)x + 4.57 × 105 (754 × 107)x + 2.24 × 105 (5.06 × 108)x – 4.49 × 105 (9.76 × 108)x – 2.12 × 106 (1.75 × 109)x – 2.20 × 106
Correlation coefficient (R 2) 0.9992 0.9991 0.9979 0.998 0.9968 0.9994 0.9911
Linearity range (μg/mL) 0.56–1,227.50 0.53–127.86 0.15–108.88 0.49–1,080.00 0.50–366.08 0.15–965.46 0.17–40.74
LOD (μg/mL) 1.12 0.33 0.08 0.25 0.25 0.15 0.047
LOQ (μg/mL) 1.9 1.19 0.23 1.48 0.76 0.67 0.17
Precision (%)
Intraday 2.85 2.99 0.84 0.40 2.52 3.03 1.83
Interday 3.83 2.20 2.63 1.83 3.90 4.55 5.17
Accuracy (%)
High spike 102.3 96.6 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
Medium spike 99.2 102.4 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
Low spike 102.4 97.7 n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d. n.d.
Combined uncertainty U (%) 2.55 8.10 1.52 1.50 3.09 3.18 3.87
Expanded uncertainty Uexp (%) (k = 2) 5.09 16.20 3.04 2.99 6.17 6.36 7.75

LOD, limit of detection; LOQ, limit of quantitation; n.d., not determined.