raditional extraction-based proximate analysis. Correlation coefficients
were 0.94, 0.88, 0.99, and 0.96 for carbohydrates, proteins,
lipids, and inerts, respectively. The hypothesis of no correlation or
producing such correlations by random chance was tested. The
probability (P) of such hypothesis was 0 for all 4 correlations, which
is much less than the confidence level a 5 0.05. In other words, the
correlations were statistically tested and observed with absolute
confidence. Testing the linearity between the procedure and the
proximate analysis, small drifts and few outliers were observed for
each measurement.