Filing

From: Paul Hutson prhutson@pharmacy.wisc.edu Subject: [NMusers] Filing Date: 10/21/2003 9:55 PM All: Prompted by Nick's suggestion of thousands of fits of iterated data, with comparison of the objective functions and description of the parameters, I am very curious to learn from you PowerUsers out there how you: 1) Manage and keep track of file names (and any variations in initial estimates associated with each run), 2) Extract the parameter estimates (Thetas, Etas, Etcs) for descriptive and statistical analysis. For example, do you have Fortran strip out the parameters of interest with a WRITE command to a file that is appended with subsequent runs, or do you create a $TABLE text file, then parse it into a spreadsheet like EXCEL with one or two macros that strip out the parameters to another spreadsheet page?. Either way, how do you keep track, in a given line of parameters gleaned from a given run, of what run and what initial estimates it was derived? Thanks in advance for your insight. Paul