i am working on carotenoids and i want to calculate limit of detection, limit of quantification, accuracy, precision & method validation for beta-carotene. pls guide me for above.
the abovementioned suggestions are good. Your software for HPLC should include a suitability test application - on this basis you can determine a lot of parameters used for validation, for example the S/N ratio for your analytes or resolution, retention factor etc.. At the end when you will set all parameters/criteria for your method this application can be used to control its fullfilment by defining some of your samples as the one for suitablity check in each series/batch of samples.
Would you please tell, which instrument you are using currently? Actually, there are many software packages depending on different instrument. These softwares calculate the S/N ratios and according to the FDA guidelines for bioanalytical method validation the S/N ratio for LOD and LOQ is 3 and 5, respectively. I hope, Inside the software you would able to find everything.