[NMusers] Splitting the residual error

2016-05-13 Thread Jonathan Moss
Dear all, I would like to share with you and get people's opinions on a recent issue I had. I have a data set of 46 patients, orally dosed, with very dense sampling during absorption (0.25h, 0.5h, 0.75h, 1h, 1.5h, 2h, 3h, 4h, 6h, 8h, 12h, 24h, 36h), Cmax at around 4 hours. During modelling, I

RE: [NMusers] Splitting the residual error

2016-05-13 Thread Mats Karlsson
Dear Jon, As you point out the concept of residual error magnitude being dependent on anything else than the prediction itself is a straightforward. Yet it is, I think underused and that is why you may not see it much in the literature. In addition to what you mention, a large component is that

Re: [NMusers] Splitting the residual error

2016-05-13 Thread Ekaterina Gibiansky
Dear Jon, We routinely use separate residual errors during absorption and later (say, a larger error in the first X hours), although I do not remember whether we published any of those models. Regards, Katya Ekaterina Gibiansky, Ph.D. CEO&CSO, QuantPharm LLC Web:www.quantpharm.com Email:egib

Re: [NMusers] Time varying volume of distribution implementation

2016-05-13 Thread Alison Boeckmann
The code cannot be used when any WT values are missing. In order to interpolate appropriately in $DES, WT should be present on every event record. $PK sees only the current and previous record. If WT is missing from the current record, $PK has no way of knowing what WT will be on the next record.

Re: [NMusers] Splitting the residual error

2016-05-13 Thread Ekaterina Gibiansky
Hi Steve and Andre, No, nothing fancy, I did not even estimate the time of the switch. Something like this: ITAD=1 IF(TAD.LE.4) ITAD=THETA(10) Y=F + (F*ITAD*ERR(1)+ERR(2)) ITAD can also include differences in populations, e.g. Phase 1 versus Phase 2-3 data, or healthy versus patients, etc.

RE: [NMusers] Splitting the residual error

2016-05-13 Thread Mats Karlsson
Steve, In papers 3 and 4 below, we outlined and tested a few different models for separating error models for absorption and disposition based on time or partial derivatives versus time or Ka. Overall message is *that* you do it is more important than *how* you do it. I typically choose a simpl