From: "Ziad Hussein" <Z.Hussein@Medeval.Com>
Subject: NONMEM Analysis Strategy
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:46:32 +0100
Dear Users,
As you know there are few strategies to follow when doing population PK/PD analysis. For example, the strategy I have been using for years is establishing the basic model, followed by univariate analysis, multiple regression analysis with forward selection and finally multiple regression analysis with backward elimination leading to a final optimal model. All this I have been doing using NONMEM.
I would appreciate any comments on this strategy and any recommendations.
I apologies if this topic was raised before and would be grateful referring me to such correspondence.
Yours sincerely,
Ziad Hussein
Dr Ziad Hussein
Senior Pharmacokineticist
Department of Pharmacokinetics & Data Management
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NONMEM Analysis Strategy
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:12:31 -0700
From: LSheiner <lewis@c255.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: NONMEM Analysis Strategy
You might want to look at Mandema JW, Verotta D, Sheiner, LB. Building population pharmacokinetic-dynamic models. I. Models for covariate effects, J Pharmacokin Biopharmaceut, 20:511-528, 1992., and papers since then by EN Jonsson and MO Karlsson.
LBS.
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Date: 17 Sep 1999 14:49:13 -0400
From: "Ette" <ette@vpharm.com>
Subject: RE: NONMEM Analysis Strategy
Ziad,
You may want to look up the following reference in addition to the ones provided by Dr. Sheiner:
Ette EI, Ludden TM. Population pharmacokinetic modeling: importance of informative graphics. Pharm. Res. 1995; 12: 1845 -1855.
Ene Ette.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
From: NIclas Jonsson <niclas.jonsson@biof.uu.se>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:53:53 +0100 (IST)
Subject: NONMEM Analysis Strategy
One of the papers by EN Jonsson and MO Karlsson that Lewis talks about is "Automated covariate model building within NONMEM" (PharmRes 15(9) 1998, pp. 1463-1468). It describes a method with which the covariate model can be built with as much automation as possible (basically forward inclusion and backwards elimination for both liear and non-linear covariate relationships).
The procedure (written in perl) for doing this is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.biof.uu.se/pub/biof/PsN/ in the files psn0.071.tar.gz and psn07.zip depending on you plattform.
Best regards,
Niclas Jonsson