Help please...
From: "Mike Cole" <Michael.Cole@newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: Help please...
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:52:01 +0000
Hello
Any help or advise would be much appreciated. I am using a straightforward 2 compartment model to obtain 'empirical bayes' (posthoc) estimates of clearance for new patients based upon 1 or 2 data points for that individual together with data from 60 patients for which we have 6/7 data points per individual.
I would like to produce a graph showing the observed data for the new individual together with predictions based upon the 'empirical bayes' estimates for that patient. If I append the data file with dummy time points which have missing dependent variables the estimates become nonsensical.
Can anyone explain why this happens or suggest a simple alternative.
Thanks in advance.
Mike Cole
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Michael Cole
Dept of Statistics/Cancer Research Unit,
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