Issue 16, 2013

An overall uncertainty approach for the validation of analytical separation methods

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to recommend a new strategy for the analytical validation based on the uncertainty profile as a graphical decision-making tool, and to exemplify a novel method to estimate the measurement uncertainty. Indeed, the innovative formula that we offer to assess the uncertainty is based on the calculation of the β-content tolerance interval. Three chemometric methodologies are exposed to build the (β, γ) tolerance interval, namely: the Satterthwaite approximation, the GPQ method (generalized pivotal confidence) and the MLS procedure (modified large simple). Furthermore, we illustrate the applicability and flexibility of the uncertainty profile to assess the fitness of the purpose of chromatographic and electrophoretic analytical methods, which use different instrumental techniques such as liquid chromatography (LC-UV, LC-MS), gas chromatography (GC-FID, GC-MS) and capillary electrophoresis (CE, CE-MS). In addition, we demonstrate here that (β, γ) tolerance intervals will provide perfect estimates of the routine uncertainty. In particular, we show that there is no difference statistically between the uncertainties estimated by our methodology as of the validation stage with those obtained from the routine phase.

Graphical abstract: An overall uncertainty approach for the validation of analytical separation methods

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Mar 2013
Accepted
24 May 2013
First published
24 May 2013

Analyst, 2013,138, 4677-4691

An overall uncertainty approach for the validation of analytical separation methods

T. Saffaj, B. Ihssane, F. Jhilal, H. Bouchafra, S. Laslami and S. A. Sosse, Analyst, 2013, 138, 4677 DOI: 10.1039/C3AN00519D

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