Research Article

Development of UV Spectrophotometric Procedures for Determination of Amlodipine and Celecoxib in Formulation: Use of Scaling Factor to Improve the Sensitivity

Table 2

Precision and accuracy data.

Amount of drug (μg/mL)InterdayIntraday
Amount found mean (n = 3) ± SD% RSD% REAmount found mean (n = 9) ± SD% RSD% RE

First derivative method
AMD11.01 ± 0.010.510.990.99 ± 0.011.02−1.01
43.93 ± 0.050.41−1.784.01 ± 0.041.000.25
87.94 ± 0.181.88−0.767.9 ± 0.151.90−1.27
54.96 ± 0.051.01−0.815.08 ± 0.061.181.57
COX2020.16 ± 0.381.510.7919.76 ± 0.311.58−1.25
4039.4 ± 0.661.7−1.5240.08 ± 0.591.470.20

Second method
AMD10.99 ± 0.011.02−1.010.98 ± 0.011.02−2.00
44.06 ± 0.071.141.483.94 ± 0.062.04−2.04
87.92 ± 0.141.97−1.017.86 ± 0.172.16−1.78
COX54.91 ± 0.031.01−1.835.04 ± 0.071.390.79
2019.67 ± 0.211.39−1.6819.81 ± 0.331.67−0.96
4039.85 ± 0.711.33−0.3839.4 ± 0.691.75−1.52

SD: standard deviation; % RSD: percent relative standard deviation; % RE: percent relative error.