[mixture models] assign individual to a subpopulation every dosing record?
Dear NMusers,
I am currently trying to use mixture models on my data because the absorption
rate constant (Ka) appears to follow a bi-modal distribution. But what makes
this complicated is that each subject has two dosing occasions with a washout
period in between, and the absorption tends to vary a lot for the same
individual (the extent of inter occasion variability of Ka is similar between
individual variability). Therefore I would like to allow Ka to vary for the
same subject during different occasions while keeping all the other parameters
the same for a certain subject. I know I could use inter-occasion eta term on
Ka, but I want to allow Ka to have the ability to be assigned to different
subpopulations for the same individual. But in the mixture model structure, the
$MIX is called once per individual and we can only assign each individual to a
subpopulation once.. I wonder if there is a way to assign individual to a
subpopulation every dosing record?
Thank you in advance. I appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Yu
Graduate student in Clinical Pharmaceutical Science
University of Iowa