RE: Significant Figures Continuation
Dear Indranil,
Nick Holford has posted his observation on the use of SIGDIG in Nonmem
v6 to this list. You can find the results at his site:
http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sms/pharmacology/holford/projects/sigdig.
aspx
If you use ADVAN 6 to 9, you may want to set TOL to a number really
higher (at least +3) than SIG to get consistent results, as mentioned
during the NM7 introduction by Bob bauer.
So you may interpret SIG as a convergence criterium and your results as
some instability. Try to play around with ADVAN 6-9, SIG, TOL and ML
approach (FOCE - LAPL) to search for stability in outcomes. Or better,
refine your model to stabilize it. A third, easier, solution would be to
do a bootstrap and check for stability / %CV outcomes that way.
Best regards,
Jeroen
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From: owner-nmusers
On Behalf Of Indranil Bhattacharya
Sent: Wednesday, 20 January, 2010 15:21
To: nmusers
Subject: [NMusers] Significant Figures Continuation
First, of all sorry about the last email, it somehow got sent before I
could complete it.
Hi, while running a KOKA model I came across an observation and would
greatly appreciate it if someone helps me understand it.
When using a SIG=3, the model converges, and provides lower and upper CI
bounds. All the CI bounds are positive except Q and the CV% of all
parameters are within 20 % (except Q).
This suggests (correct me if I am wrong) that the data might not be rich
enough for the model to calculate a precise value for Q so it gives a
wider range?
Now when I change the SIG=3 to SIG=4, the model converges but the CV%
are very high and more importantly I get negative lower bounds for all
the parameters. What does this suggest, that the model cannot get
precise estimates now at the level of significance (of numbers)
requested? Please advise.
Regards
Neil
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