RE: no. of dummy points affect simulation and estimation results
From: GIRARD PASCAL PASCAL.GIRARD@adm.univ-lyon1.fr
Subject: RE: [NMusers] no. of dummy points affect simulation and estimation results
Date: Tue, April 20, 2004 5:37 am
Sandra,
Here are 2 more efficient ways to initialize your compartment, which avoid defining
dummy times:
1) either put a steady state (SS=1) dose at time 0 with a correct value for AMT
producing the initial correct value in the given compartment, or
2) put a dummy unit dose of 1 at time 0, as you did, and set F1, F2, ..., F5 the
bioavailability parameters for each compartment to their respective initial values.
Here is a simple illustration for an indirect action model.
$MODEL
COMP=(CENTRAL) ; Compartment 1
COMP=(RESP) ; Compartment 1
$PK
KIN=THETA(1)
KOUT=THETA(2)
BASE=KIN/KOUT ; Baseline is the ratio of Kin and Kout
; INITIALISATION OF RESPONSE COMPARTMENT
; NEED to have AMT=1 at TIME=0 in compartment 2
F2=BASE
Best regards,
Pascal Girard