Dear all,
I have routinely generated a histogram of CWRESI residuals as a model
diagnostic, expecting the standard deviation to be close to one, and then
commenting 'the SD is close to one as would be expected in a well behaved
model'. However, I have now run into a situation where the SD is 0.887 which I
consider a lot lower than I'd expect, but I have no clue what that tells me...
Any ideas? Should I stop making the plot? ;)
Kind regards,
Rik
Rik Schoemaker, PhD
Occams Coöperatie U.A.
Malandolaan 10
1187 HE Amstelveen
The Netherlands
http://www.occams.com
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[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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Distribution of CWRESI as a diagnostic
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Hi Rik
Isn’t this simply the expression of an ε-shrinkage phenomenon, bringing the
individual predictions close to the observations, possibly due to model
overparametrization? Beware of models trying to be too well behaved!
Best regards
Thierry
CHUV
University Hospital Centre of the Canton de Vaud
Pr Thierry BUCLIN, MD, head physician
Service of Clinical Pharmacology
Institutes building, Bugnon 17, 1st floor
1011 Lausanne - SWITZERLAND
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Objet : [NMusers] Distribution of CWRESI as a diagnostic
Dear all,
I have routinely generated a histogram of CWRESI residuals as a model
diagnostic, expecting the standard deviation to be close to one, and then
commenting 'the SD is close to one as would be expected in a well behaved
model'. However, I have now run into a situation where the SD is 0.887 which I
consider a lot lower than I'd expect, but I have no clue what that tells me...
Any ideas? Should I stop making the plot? ;)
Kind regards,
Rik
Rik Schoemaker, PhD
Occams Coöperatie U.A.
Malandolaan 10
1187 HE Amstelveen
The Netherlands
http://www.occams.com
+31 20 441 6410
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[image001.png]
Dear Rik,
Is the mean of the distribution deviating significantly from 0 and/or does
the shape of the distribution deviate much from a normal distribution?
Ps. I do not regularly assess if my CWRES distributions have a SD=1 so I
can’t say if I regularly see a similar behavior.
Kind regards,
Martin
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> I have routinely generated a histogram of CWRESI residuals as a model
> diagnostic, expecting the standard deviation to be close to one, and then
> commenting 'the SD is close to one as would be expected in a well behaved
> model'. However, I have now run into a situation where the SD is 0.887
> which I consider a lot lower than I'd expect, but I have no clue what that
> tells me...
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> Any ideas? Should I stop making the plot? ;)
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Hi Rik,
In some investigations that Joakim Nyberg and I did at PAGE a while back, we
saw that CWRESI were less likely to be N(0,1) even if the model is correct,
compared to CWRES (Nyberg, Bauer, Hooker, PAGE, 2010). So I might recommend
creating the plot with CWRES. Otherwise, you could do multiple
simulation-evaluations with the model that you have to get an empirical
understanding of the expected CWRESI distribution, if the model you are
currently using was the model that generated the data. This could be done using
the “simeval” tool in NONMEM and “tricking” PsN into thinking that the CWRESI
are actually the CWRES by setting (CWRES=CWRESI) in the table file (not tested,
but I suspect this will work).
On a side note, I think my NMUSERS account is associated with my old “farmbio”
email address, so maybe you could forward this to note to NMUSERS?
Best regards,
Andy
Andrew Hooker, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacometrics
Dept. of Pharmacy
Uppsala University
Box 580, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 471 4355
https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N4-631
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On 15 Nov 2022, at 09:53, Rik Schoemaker
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear all,
I have routinely generated a histogram of CWRESI residuals as a model
diagnostic, expecting the standard deviation to be close to one, and then
commenting 'the SD is close to one as would be expected in a well behaved
model'. However, I have now run into a situation where the SD is 0.887 which I
consider a lot lower than I'd expect, but I have no clue what that tells me...
Any ideas? Should I stop making the plot? ;)
Kind regards,
Rik
Rik Schoemaker, PhD
Occams Coöperatie U.A.
Malandolaan 10
1187 HE Amstelveen
The Netherlands
http://www.occams.com/
+31 20 441 6410
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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Dear Martin and Andy,
Thank you very much for your input! It appears that my diagnostic distribution
that I’d been using for ages is not such a great diagnostic after all; always
good to toss out something of limited use (if it doesn’t spark joy… 😊). Btw,
the distribution is nicely symmetrical around almost zero, just a bit too
peaked.
Kind regards,
Rik
Rik Schoemaker, PhD
Occams Coöperatie U.A.
Malandolaan 10
1187 HE Amstelveen
The Netherlands
http://www.occams.com
+31 20 441 6410
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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From: Andrew Hooker <[email protected]>
Sent: 15 November 2022 18:12
To: Rik Schoemaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Nmusers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NMusers] Distribution of CWRESI as a diagnostic
Hi Rik,
In some investigations that Joakim Nyberg and I did at PAGE a while back, we
saw that CWRESI were less likely to be N(0,1) even if the model is correct,
compared to CWRES (Nyberg, Bauer, Hooker, PAGE, 2010). So I might recommend
creating the plot with CWRES. Otherwise, you could do multiple
simulation-evaluations with the model that you have to get an empirical
understanding of the expected CWRESI distribution, if the model you are
currently using was the model that generated the data. This could be done using
the “simeval” tool in NONMEM and “tricking” PsN into thinking that the CWRESI
are actually the CWRES by setting (CWRES=CWRESI) in the table file (not tested,
but I suspect this will work).
On a side note, I think my NMUSERS account is associated with my old “farmbio”
email address, so maybe you could forward this to note to NMUSERS?
Best regards,
Andy
Andrew Hooker, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacometrics
Dept. of Pharmacy
Uppsala University
Box 580, 751 23, Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 471 4355
https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N4-631
https://katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N4-631
http://www.farmbio.uu.se/research/researchgroups/pharmacometrics/
From: Martin Bergstrand
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: 15 November 2022 10:33
To: Rik Schoemaker [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NMusers] Distribution of CWRESI as a diagnostic
Dear Rik,
Is the mean of the distribution deviating significantly from 0 and/or does the
shape of the distribution deviate much from a normal distribution?
Ps. I do not regularly assess if my CWRES distributions have a SD=1 so I can’t
say if I regularly see a similar behavior.
Kind regards,
Martin
On 15 Nov 2022, at 09:53, Rik Schoemaker
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear all,
I have routinely generated a histogram of CWRESI residuals as a model
diagnostic, expecting the standard deviation to be close to one, and then
commenting 'the SD is close to one as would be expected in a well behaved
model'. However, I have now run into a situation where the SD is 0.887 which I
consider a lot lower than I'd expect, but I have no clue what that tells me...
Any ideas? Should I stop making the plot? ;)
Kind regards,
Rik
Rik Schoemaker, PhD
Occams Coöperatie U.A.
Malandolaan 10
1187 HE Amstelveen
The Netherlands
http://www.occams.com/
+31 20 441 6410
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
<image001.png>
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