backward integration from t-a to t

From: Pavel Belo Date: January 14, 2014 technical Source: mail-archive.com
Dear Robert, Efficacy is frequently considered a function of AUC. (AUC is just an integral. It is obvious how to calculate AUC any software which can solve ODE.) A disadvantage of this model of efficacy is that the effect is irreversable because AUC of concentration can only increase; it cannot decrease. In many cases, a more meaningful model is a model where AUC is calculated form time t -a to t (kind of "moving average"), where t is time in the system of differential equations (variable T in NONMEM). There are 2 obvious ways to calculate AUC(t-a, t). The first is to do backward integration, which looks like a hard and resource consuming way for NONMEM. The second one is to keep in memory AUC for all time points used during the integration and calculate AUC(t-a,t) as AUC(t) - AUC(t-a), there AUC(t-a) can be interpolated using two closest time points below and above t-a. Is there a way to access AUC for the past time points (<t) from the integration routine? It seems like an easy thing to do. Kind regards, Pavel
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