From:Venkatesh Atul Bhattaram
Subject: Integrator option
Date: Thursday January 10, 2002 23:30
Hello All.
Could somebody share his experience on this! I am trying to develop a pk model for a drug
which exhibits complex absorption characteristics using differential equations. I am using a
software SCIENTIST in which the user has an option to select the integrator method.
I was observing that when I was using Eulers method the final estimates did not
make any meaning (some estimates were as high as 10000). But when I used EPISODE
STIFF option the estimates were making meaning. Also I observe a goo decrease the
sum of squares (least squares estimation). I was wondering why this could be. Also
how will the reliability of the estimates might be?
Thanks in advance
Venkatesh Atul Bhattaram
Post-doctoral fellow
University of Florida
Gainesville-32601
ph: 352-846-3257
Integrator option
From: Piotrovskij, Vladimir
Subject: Integrator option
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:57:48 +0100
Atul,
Euler method is very rough, you'd better not use it for estimation.
Best regards,
Vladimir
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