RE: [mixture models] assign individual to a subpopulation every dosing record?
Dear Lenonid,
Thank you for your suggestion! That is very helpful. But I am not sure how to
implement this in NONMEM. I might be wrong, but from my understanding, the
$MIX block only deals with assigning subpopulation to an individual. But in my
case I need to assign states to each occasion of a given individual first.
Could you maybe be a little more specific on how to do the coding to evaluate
the states from occasion to occasion?
Thanks,
Yu
Graduate student in Clinical Pharmaceutical Science
University of Iowa
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From: Leonid Gibiansky [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:14 PM
To: Jiang, Yu; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NMusers] [mixture models] assign individual to a subpopulation
every dosing record?
Yu,
In terms of coding, you can do it using 4 sub-populations:
KA1-KA1
KA1-KA2
KA2-KA1
KA2-KA2
Interpretation would be quite complicated as you would need to assume
that each subjects can be in two states, KA1 and KA2, and this state may
change from occasion to occasion.
For consistency, you may need to assume that each subject can be in KA1
state with the probability f1, and in KA2 state with the probability
f2=1-f1, and then fractions of the four sub-populations defined above
would be expressed as
P1=f1*f1
P2=f1*f2
P3=f2*f1
P4=f2*f2
Alternatively, you may want to stay with just one population (same
population KA for all subjects) but allow high inter-occasion variability.
Leonid
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On 8/26/2014 1:43 PM, Jiang, Yu wrote:
> 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
>
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