Research Article

Modeling Drug-Carrier Interaction in the Drug Release from Nanocarriers

Table 4

Properties of the model parameters for Figure 3(a).

VariablesParameterParameter estimationaBootstrap resultsF-statistic (P value)
meanSDbP value

1 mol% PEG 0.49410.55920.007<1.0 164.1721 (P < 0.001)
0.01360.01693.00E-04<1.0
0.01720.02528.00E-04<1.0
–0.9676–1.21450.0263<1.0

3 mol% PEG 1.5681.42750.0182<1.0 349.7894 (P < 0.001)
0.02610.02774.00E-04<1.0
0.02130.02285.00E-04<1.0
0.82830.96560.0219<1.0

4 mol% PEG 1.27281.21650.0107<1.0 470.3850 (P < 0.001)
0.0390.04185.00E-04<1.0
0.0230.02525.00E-04<1.0
2.17812.23030.0218<1.0

10 mol% PEG 2.78492.42220.0275<1.0 782.3148 (P < 0.0001)
0.08910.08417.00E-04<1.0
0.0280.02553.00E-04<1.0
4.76845.02850.0251<1.0

aParameters are determined using Matlab codes as detailed in Section 3.1.
bSD: standard deviation.