Table 1: Assay results of lamivudine in its pharmaceutical preparations by the proposed method.

Table 3: Assay results of lamivudine in its pharmaceutical preparations by the proposed method.

Item	Proposed method	Comparative method [2]
Lamidine^® tablets (150 mg lamivudine/tablet)
Recovery %	99.18	99.18
	98.50	99.02
	98.72	99.71
	99.31	98.98
	99.44	99.83
SD	0.402	0.398
t^*	0.785
F^*	1.02

*Theoretical values for t- and F- at p = 0.05 are 2.31 and 6.39, respectively.