COMPARISON OF THREE WEIGHING METHODS FOR EVALUATION OF THE HPLC FINGERPRINTS OF CORTEX FRAXINI

作者：Qiuhua Zhao, Xin Zhou, Rui-Fang Xie, Zhicheng Li · 发表于：Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.1080/10826076.2011.582912 · 被引用次数：25 · 研究领域：Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis、Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies、Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies

Three weighing methodological approaches, including Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC), and synthetic method (AHP combined with CRITIC), were proposed to handle the relative importance of different constituents in the HPLC fingerprints of cortex fraxini. The consistency and rationale of the three methods have been analyzed and compared. Results showed satisfying consistency in all three methods; the synthetic method reflected both the analyst's subjective judgments and the objective data itself and was, therefore, more representative than either of the other two methods alone. We conclude that the synthetic method is a reliable and appropriate method to evaluate the HPLC fingerprint of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).