VPCs confidence intervals?
Dear all,
I have a question regarding visual predictive checks (VPCs).
Most of VPCs used now, include a line representing the median and 5th and 95th
percentiles of the data values and an area around the same percentiles that is
commonly define as the 95% confidence interval (of the simulations).
But is it correct, from the statistical point of view, to call confidence
interval to this area? And if this is not the case how should we define them?
Thanks,
Elena Soto
Elena Soto, PhD
Pharmacometrician
Pharmacometrics, Global Clinical Pharmacology
Global Product Development
Pfizer R&D UK Limited, IPC 096
CT13 9NJ, Sandwich, UK
Phone : +44 1304 644883
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