Re: Random number generation
Thanks Tingjie for your suggestion
Unfortunately, as is, the suggested code is rejected by NONMEM 7.3 if used in
$ERROR. Some additional setup calls might be required.
An (admittedly heavy-handed) alternative that actually works is to create and
import a fortran routine (see NONMEM help topic about FUNCA, or VECTRA).
runif.f90:
FUNCTION FUNCA(X,X1,X2)
USE SIZES, ONLY: DPSIZE
REAL(KIND=DPSIZE) :: X,X1,X2,FUNCA
FUNCB = RAND()
RETURN
END
Control stream:
...
$SUBROUTINES ADVAN_ TRANS_ OTHER=runif.f90
...
$ERROR
VECTRA(1) = 0
VECTRA(2) = 0
VECTRA(3) = 0
RND = FUNCA(VECTRA)
...
Quoted reply history
From: "Tingjie Guo" <[email protected]>
To: "Sebastien Bihorel" <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 12:58:56 PM
Subject: Re: Random number generation
Hi Sebastien,
As far as I know, you could write verbatim code to generate random numbers
during estimation. E.g:
$PK|$DES|$ERROR
RAN = any value ; initialization
"RAN = RAND(0) ; start verbatim code
A random number between 0 and 1 from uniform distribution will be assigned to
RAN. This function is called for each record of your input data. I believe it's
also possible to call it more/fewer times through checking ICALL.
Warm regards,
Tingjie
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of
Sebastien Bihorel <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 12:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NMusers] Random number generation
Hi,
Is it possible for NONMEM to generate a random number during an estimation run?
Thank you
Sebastien Bihorel