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Table 3 Comparison of the means of each of the three newly developed methods with the mean obtained by UV/Vis spectrophotometer using t test at 95% confidence level

From: Development of new analytical methods for the determination of caffeine content in aqueous solution of green coffee beans

Methods

Mean ± SD (%)

Degree of freedom

tcalculated

tcritical

Remark

FT-IR-ATR

1.52 ± 0.093

4

2.05

2.132

No significantly different

NIR

1.50 ± 0.14

4

1.26

2.132

No significantly different

Fluorescence

1.50 ± 0.05

4

1.97

2.132

No significantly different