Re: IOV effects
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:55:16 +0100
From: Mats Karlsson <Mats.Karlsson@biof.uu.se>
Subject: Re: IOV effects
Hi
I agree with all what Pascal wrote apart from
> when a patient has only one occasion he carries absolutely no information
> about IOV.
An equally true statement is that he carries no information about IIV. That truth being that he carries info only about the sum of the two and information from other individuals will have to be used to partition the total variability.
> With NONMEM, if you try to estimate IOV using a dataset with patients
> having only one occasion, you should get an estimate of IOV omega close
> to 1E-8
Actually, IIV and IOV are unidentifyable, they can take on a multitude of values, but should be highly correlated.
Mats