Research Article

Prediction of Total Phenolic Content in Extracts of Prunella Species from HPLC Profiles by Multivariate Calibration

Table 2

RMSEs (mg GAE g−1 dried plant) for the calibration and test sets for the total phenol contents of Prunella L. extracts obtained by modeling with PCR and PLS regression after the chromatograms alignment.

ModelPreprocessingNumber of componentsRMSERMSEP

PCRColumn centering66.546.62
Smoothing, normalization, and column centering66.634.11
PLSRaw data62.471.61
Smoothing and normalization64.832.76