Planilha de validação: uma nova ferramenta para estimar figuras de mérito na validação de métodos analíticos univariados Validation spreadsheet: a new tool for estimating the analytical figures of merit for the validation of univariate methods

Abstract

This work presents the VALIDATION SPREADSHEET, a public domain tool that can be used to evaluate the figures of merit for univariate analytical methods. A real example of BTEX determination in environmental samples is included to illustrate its use. The spreadsheet has been developed for Excel® and Open Office®, and is available on the internet at http//lqta.iqm.unicamp.br.

Keywords

• spreadsheet
• figures of merit
• validation