Simple Spectrophotometric Method for Determination of Paroxetine in Tablets Using 1,2-Naphthoquinone-4-Sulphonate as a Chromogenic Reagent

Table 5

Analysis of PRX-containing tablets by the proposed and the official methods.

Tablet	Recovery (%  ± RSD)(a)		t-value(c)	F-value(c)
	Proposed	Official(b)
Seroxate tablets	99.17±1.06	101.31±0.48	2.20	4.88

(a)Values are mean of 6 determinations.
(b)Reference [14].
(c)The tabulated values of t- and F-values at 95% confidence limit are 2.78 and 6.39, respectively.