Research Article

Modeling Drug-Carrier Interaction in the Drug Release from Nanocarriers

Table 5

Properties of the model parameters for Figure 4(d).

VariablesParameterParameter estimationaBootstrap resultsF-statistic (P value)
meanSDbP value

PLGA50/50 0.19720.20350.001<1.0 16.8532 (P < 0.004)
0.01990.02031.00E-04<1.0
0.030.03142.00E-04<1.0
−1.6872−1.76920.0152<1.0

PLGA65/35 0.16330.16680.0032<1.0 8.4857 (P < 0.01)
0.00440.00441.00E-04<1.0
0.00790.0082.00E-04<1.0
−2.3984−2.40880.01<1.0

PLGA85/15 0.17950.18540.0038<1.0 174.3171 (P < 0.001)
0.00680.00681.00E-04<1.0
0.01760.01814.00E-04<1.0
−3.9408−3.96070.0151<1.0

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