RE: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-05 Thread Mats Karlsson
-nmus...@globomaxnm.com [mailto:owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com] On Behalf Of Toufigh Gordi Sent: 05 March 2012 22:45 To: Wang, Xiaofeng; 'nmusers@globomaxnm.com' Subject: Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model Whenever I start a modeling process, my first objective is to get the struct

Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-05 Thread Toufigh Gordi
; To: Wang, Xiaofeng; 'nmusers@globomaxnm.com' > Subject: Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model > > Xiaofeng, > > It always amazes me how many parameters we try to estimate based on the > limited amount of data available. This is specially the case when a rather

RE: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-05 Thread Wang, Xiaofeng
katerina Gibiansky [egibian...@quantpharm.com] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 8:53 PM To: 'nmusers@globomaxnm.com' Subject: Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model Xiaofeng, Such a large difference suggests you may have a problem with units: check AMT, DV, and the parameter S2 for consisten

Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-05 Thread Toufigh Gordi
Gibiansky [egibian...@quantpharm.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 8:53 PM > To: 'nmusers@globomaxnm.com' > Subject: Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model > > Xiaofeng, > > Such a large difference suggests you may have a problem with units: check AMT, >

RE: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-04 Thread Wang, Xiaofeng
sers] time-dependent clearance model Xiaofeng, Such a large difference suggests you may have a problem with units: check AMT, DV, and the parameter S2 for consistency. A couple of other points: - If the full induction is expected by day 7, and you only have data on day 1 and after day 7, you may not

Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-04 Thread Ekaterina Gibiansky
Xiaofeng, Such a large difference suggests you may have a problem with units: check AMT, DV, and the parameter S2 for consistency. A couple of other points: - If the full induction is expected by day 7, and you only have data on day 1 and after day 7, you may not

RE: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-04 Thread Wang, Xiaofeng
, Xiaofeng Subject: Re: [NMusers] time-dependent clearance model How do you know the initial guess of KIN ? Right now it is 0.02 which will mean ~40-50hr for CL half life (so to imagine) you think it's reasonable for CL to drop by that much in 50hrs ? You can possibly try different initial gu

[NMusers] time-dependent clearance model

2012-03-04 Thread Wang, Xiaofeng
Dear nmusers, I have a drug with clearance autoinduction. I have sparse data(three observations on day 1, two between day 7 and 14, and one on day 28). I am trying to run a time-dependent clearance model. I tried FO and FOCEI, but I always got unreasonable estimate for the initial clearance (C