IIV decrease in mixture model

From: Vinogradova Svetlana Date: May 21, 2012 technical Source: mail-archive.com
Dear NMusers, I have a PD model describing viral infection process. There is variable Vo for initial viral load and it has IIV, omega(V0). When I fit the data with simple model, omega(V0) is 52% and covariance step is ok. But when I try mixture model, omega(V0) becomes very low, and covariance step is not finished. But if I look at post-hos values of Vo, there are two peaks, for 2 groups of patients. Do you have any idea why it is like this? I mean it seems strange that omega(V0) decreases so much. Thank you all in advance, Svetlana
May 21, 2012 Vinogradova Svetlana IIV decrease in mixture model
May 21, 2012 Luann Phillips Re: IIV decrease in mixture model