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Understanding Your Agilent ChemStation 23
Agilent ChemStation Features
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About the ChemStation Software
Data Analysis — Specialized Reporting
Advanced reporting capabilities are also included in the ChemStation for
applications that require a more specialized set of reports. These include
statistics on separation quality, reports that include trend analysis between
samples and user-defined report layouts.
System Suitability Reports
System suitability reports enable users to report system performance
parameters for individual analyses. There are three variations, or styles of
these reports.
The standard template Performance report prints parameters for uncalibrated
methods that include:
• retention/migration time,
• capacity factor (k’),
• peak area,
• peak height,
• symmetry,
• true peak width at half height,
• efficiency in plate numbers,
• resolution, and
• selectivity.
For calibrated methods the compound name and amount replace the peak
area, height and selectivity columns.
The report header includes the standard header and footer, sample
information block, the analytical column parameters and optionally a plot of
the chromatogram/electropherogram.
The Performance and Noise style adds an evaluation of the signal noise, in up to
seven user-defined evaluation ranges, to the data from the Performance report
style. The noise parameters are reported as signal to noise ratios for each peak
or calibrated compound and a noise table for each signal. Each noise table
includes noise calculated by the six times standard deviation, peak to peak
and ASTM methods as well as the wander and drift.