RE: sample size
From: "GIRARD PASCAL" PASCAL.GIRARD@adm.univ-lyon1.fr
Subject: RE: [NMusers] sample size
Date: Sun, November 14, 2004 4:31 am
Hi Mats,
I was certainly not recommanding STS neither. Having said
this, does better means good estimates? I don't know the work
you mention, but did you have a look at the confidence intervals?
Did you know the exact structural and PK-PD model (simulated or real
data set) ? How large were the random inter-individual variances? Did
you have outliers? All this may affect your results with few individuals.
That's why I was cautionning any population analysis (one or 2 stages)
with only 4 individuals, unless you have adressed all those questions
and accept to report your CI.
Have a good Sunday,
Pascal