[NMusers] transit compartment question

2011-03-08 Thread Ethan Wu
Hi all, I was implementing transit compartment for a absorption model for the first time. I could not understand why the relationship between mean transit time and transit rate is MTT=(n+1)/Ktr. Could someone help me understand? Thank you.

Re: [NMusers] quality of SE estimate by IMP method

2010-09-17 Thread Ethan Wu
Bauer, Robert" To: Ethan Wu ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Thu, September 16, 2010 2:26:07 PM Subject: RE: [NMusers] quality of SE estimate by IMP method Yes.  Read the METHOD=CHAIN section in the intro712.pdf manual. Robert J. Bauer, Ph.D. Vice President, Pharmacometrics ICON Development

Re: [NMusers] quality of SE estimate by IMP method

2010-09-16 Thread Ethan Wu
Hi Bob,   Is there a way to pick up from the last run with SAEM/IMP so to only run the additional step IMPMAP? Thank you.  From: "Bauer, Robert" To: Ethan Wu ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Thu, September 16, 2010 12:12:28 PM Subject: RE: [NMusers]

[NMusers] quality of SE estimate by IMP method

2010-09-16 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear uses,   I am using NM7 SAEM method for an analysis. As I learned from NM7 workshop, I used IMP method after SAEM to generate SE estimate.   In this case, at the end of SAEM iteration, OBJ was quite stable and negative several thousand.   But, with IMP, after 5 iterations, Obj was up to posit

[NMusers] help on a minimization problem

2010-06-18 Thread Ethan Wu
Hi users,   I ran into this error with a analyis using PRED routine. 0MINIMIZATION TERMINATED  DUE TO MAX. NO. OF FUNCTION EVALUATIONS EXCEEDED  NO. OF FUNCTION EVALUATIONS USED:    10093  NO. OF SIG. DIGITS UNREPORTABLE I did find in previous discussion, people suggested to do by adding this unde

Re: [NMusers] distribution assumption of Eta in NONMEM

2010-06-01 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear Jakob and all,     In this thread, Mats clearly indicated Eta is assumed normal distributed. But, others have said differently.     I wonder which statement is correct? From: "Ribbing, Jakob" To: nmusers Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 3:10:44 AM Subject: RE: [N

Re: [NMusers] distribution assumption of Eta in NONMEM

2010-05-28 Thread Ethan Wu
simulate, it is OK to use the Eta estimate and assume it is normal distributed to draw the random subjects.   From: Matt Hutmacher To: Ethan Wu ; Serge Guzy ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 2:43:04 PM Subject: RE: [NMusers] distribution assumption of

Re: [NMusers] distribution assumption of Eta in NONMEM

2010-05-28 Thread Ethan Wu
I could not find in the NONMEM help guide that explicitly mentioned a normal distribution is assumed, only it was clearly mentioned of assumption of mean of zero. From: Serge Guzy To: Ethan Wu ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Fri, May 28, 2010 1:25:24 PM

[NMusers] distribution assumption of Eta in NONMEM

2010-05-28 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear users,   Is it true NONMEM dose not assume Eta a normal distribution?   If it does not, I wonder what distribution it assumes? I guess this is critical when we do simulations. Thanks

Re: [NMusers] nm7 IMP method question

2010-05-12 Thread Ethan Wu
Uppsala Sweden --- sebastian.ueck...@farmbio.uu.se --- Work:   +46-(0)18-471 4437 On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ethan Wu wrote: IACCEPT

[NMusers] nm7 IMP method question

2010-05-12 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear users,   I recently started using IMP methods offered by nm7.  In the first IMP step,  I had 100 iterations and the OBJ was quite stable already around 20 iterations. In the second IMP step to obtain SE of the estimate, as "$EST METHOD=IMP EONLY=1 INTERACTION  NOABORT NITER=20 SIGL=4 NSIG=1

Re: [NMusers] help on diagnostic of a problem -- about M3 method for LLOQ:

2010-02-11 Thread Ethan Wu
error model, but, I still kept estimating different err for studies. From: "Ahn, Jae Eun" To: Ethan Wu ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 12:06:49 PM Subject: RE: [NMusers] help on diagnostic of a problem -- about M3 method for LLO

[NMusers] help on diagnostic of a problem -- about M3 method for LLOQ:

2010-02-11 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear users,    I am working on a dataset with not small percentage below LLOQ.   when I implemented M3 method to account for this, I always getting this error message: 0PROGRAM TERMINATED BY OBJ ERROR IN CLIK WITH INDIVIDUAL 2 ID=0.1900E+02 CONDITIONAL LIKELIHOOD FOR SOME OBSERVATION ESTIMATED

Re: [NMusers] how to implement AR residual error model in Nonmem with FOCE INT routine

2009-12-29 Thread Ethan Wu
, I really can't find a better structure model, and for the later covariate modeling, as I understand from a paper from Mats' group,  having a proper residual model could prevent inflation of type1 error.     From: "Gastonguay, Marc" To: E

[NMusers] how to implement AR residual error model in Nonmem with FOCE INT routine

2009-12-29 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear all,    I am fitting a PK/PD model using FOCE INT.  I do see a high correlation between WRES    I wonder could someone help me with implementation of AR residual error model  in NONMEM. Many thanks! Happy new year to all.

Re: [NMusers] OMEGA-Block

2009-08-04 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear Grevel,    could you kindly point out the reference where this statment comes from: "A further trick to make it all work is to logarithmically transform all concentrations as recommended by Mats Karlsson." thanks From: "Grevel, Joachim" To: nmusers@gl

[NMusers] program terminated by NP4F

2009-06-30 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear uses, I am getting this error from the nonmem, pop parameters was estimated but no table output  "0PROGRAM TERMINATED BY NP4F  PRED RETURNS DIFFERENT OUTPUTS WITH THE SAME INPUTS  MESSAGE ISSUED FROM TABLE STEP" What does this NP4F, and Pred returns different outputs with the same inputs me

[NMusers] simulated annealing

2009-06-26 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear users, I read nm7 is offering SAEM method. Does it have the option to use simulated annealing? thanks.

Re: [NMusers] estimating Ka from dataset combining rich sample study and sparse sampling study

2009-06-18 Thread Ethan Wu
ample study were much larger.    so I think I will further pursue exploration of IOV, as Jakob pointed out. From: James G Wright To: Stephen Duffull ; Mats Karlsson ; "Ribbing, Jakob" ; Ethan Wu ; Jurgen Bulitta ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Cc: Roger Je

Re: [NMusers] estimating Ka from dataset combining rich sample study and sparse sampling study

2009-06-17 Thread Ethan Wu
del itself.   From: "Ribbing, Jakob" To: Ethan Wu ; Jurgen Bulitta ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Cc: Roger Jelliffe ; "Neely, Michael" Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:43:28 PM Subject: RE: [NMusers] estimating Ka from dataset combining rich sample study and sparse samplin

Re: [NMusers] estimating Ka from dataset combining rich sample study and sparse sampling study

2009-06-17 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear Leonid   yes, this is another way to move forward, similar as fixing eta to estimate from rich data. From: Leonid Gibiansky To: Ethan Wu Cc: Jurgen Bulitta ; "nmusers@globomaxnm.com" ; Roger Jelliffe ; "Neely, Michael" Sent: Wednes

Re: [NMusers] estimating Ka from dataset combining rich sample study and sparse sampling study

2009-06-17 Thread Ethan Wu
Eta only as offered in nonmem.  so I went ahead tried $NONPARAMETRIC UNCONDITIONAL option, but the Eta for Ka still estimated to be very small, 5.50E-08 vs 0.13 estimated by using rich data only.   From: Jurgen Bulitta To: Ethan Wu Cc: "nm

[NMusers] estimating Ka from dataset combining rich sample study and sparse sampling study

2009-06-17 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear all,   I am working on this pop PK analysis. the objective is, to explore some covariates on the exposure.   the dataset has rich sampled study, with absorption phase well captured. and also sparse sampling study with only trough sample, and another sample around 1-2hr after dosing  with ri

Re: [NMusers] OMEGA selection

2009-04-15 Thread Ethan Wu
eed to use your brains (NONMEM does not have a brain) and your common sense to decide if your model makes sense or is perhaps overparameterised. Nick Ethan Wu wrote: > > Dear all, > >  I am fitting a PD response, and the equation goes like this: > > total response = baseline

Re: [NMusers] OMEGA selection

2009-04-15 Thread Ethan Wu
" To: Ethan Wu ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:12:56 PM Subject: RE: [NMusers] OMEGA selection Well, the first thing that I would do is look at the magnitude of the estimates of the etas.  I would eliminate those etas that are poorly estimated (essentially the

[NMusers] OMEGA selection

2009-04-15 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear all,   I am fitting a PD response, and the equation goes like this: total response = baseline+f(placebo response) +f(drug response) first, I tried full omega block, and model was able to converge, but $COV stop failed. To me, this indicates that too many parameters in the model. The structure

Re: [NMusers] calculation of AUC

2009-03-20 Thread Ethan Wu
an" Sent by: owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com 20-Mar-2009 09:17         To "'Martin Bergstrand'" , "'Ethan Wu'" , nmusers@globomaxnm.com cc Subject RE: [NMusers] calculation of AUC The easiest answer is to work it out.  Do some simulations (wit

[NMusers] calculation of AUC

2009-03-20 Thread Ethan Wu
Hi all, to calculate AUC of one of the compartments using ADVAN6, if it is a fixed time interval, will the AUC be influenced by the frequncy of sampling of the dataset within this interval or not? thanks

Re: [NMusers] add an item to the table after completion of a run

2009-03-10 Thread Ethan Wu
Hi Elodie, work this way. I don't know why doing what Bill suggested not working., hmm anyway, thanks for all the input From: Elodie Plan To: Ethan Wu ; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:44:06 AM Subject: RE: [NMusers] add an item t

Re: [NMusers] add an item to the table after completion of a run

2009-03-10 Thread Ethan Wu
RINTED:    NO  HEADERS:   ONE  FILE TO BE FORWARDED:   NO 0USER-CHOSEN ITEMS  IN THE ORDER THEY WILL APPEAR IN THE TABLE:    ID    ETA1    ETA2    ETA3    ETA4    ETA5    ETA6  THERE ARE 0 ETAS 0ETA 6 IS USED IN TABLE  1 " ____ From: Bill B

[NMusers] add an item to the table after completion of a run

2009-03-10 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear all,   after long hrs and final completion, I just realized that forgetting to ask for one ETA in the output table.   is there way to recove this missed eta to the output w/o going through the whole running again?  thanks!

Re: [NMusers] var-cov matrix issue?

2009-02-27 Thread Ethan Wu
t;kyunseop@gmail.com" To: Ethan Wu Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:19:06 PM Subject: RE: [NMusers] var-cov matrix issue? Dear Ethan, If your model has only diagonal elements in OMEGA matrix, you don't need to care about the following - positive definiteness of OMEGA matrix during

Re: [NMusers] var-cov matrix issue?

2009-02-26 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear Kyun, thanks for your help. I don't know if I understand this one "Some caution is necessary to simulate omega matrix that is alwasy positive definite. " Could you explain a bit more? From: "kyunseop....@gmail.com"

Re: [NMusers] var-cov matrix issue?

2009-02-25 Thread Ethan Wu
of the original message.  -Original Message- From: owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com [mailto:owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com]on Behalf Of Leonid Gibiansky Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 15:59 PM To: Bachman, William Cc: Ethan Wu; justin.wilk...@novartis.com; nmusers@globomaxnm.com Subject: Re: [NM

Re: [NMusers] var-cov matrix issue?

2009-02-24 Thread Ethan Wu
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[NMusers] var-cov matrix issue?

2009-02-24 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear all,  I recently encounter this error message (below). My objective was to use nonmem var-cov output  for approximation of distribution of parameters for performing a simulation.  if such error message occur, is the var-cov matrix  still OK to use? -- I know that better way to figure out d

Re: Betr.: Re: [NMusers] simulation question

2009-02-06 Thread Ethan Wu
astian Ueckert 02/06/09 10:51  >>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ethan Wu wrote: > Dear users, >  I am trying to compare several specific PK/PD study designs by: >  -- run 200 simulations with the final model (develope from original > dataset) >  -- fit the final mod

Re: [NMusers] simulation question

2009-02-06 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear Martin and Elodie and others,   Thanks for pointing out this nice function of PsN--  I think I will give it a try this time.    From: Martin Bergstrand To: Sebastian Ueckert ; Ethan Wu Cc: nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 5:52:09

[NMusers] Fw: Spam Submission Received

2009-02-05 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear users,  I just sent one question to the list today,  looks like it was treated as spam message! is there anyway to retrieve my email of question to the list? - Forwarded Message From: "ab...@global.sprint.com" To: ethan.w...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 7:12:03 PM S

[NMusers] simulation question

2009-02-05 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear users,    I am trying to compare several specific PK/PD study designs by:  -- run 200 simulations with the final model (develope from original dataset)  -- fit the final model to the 200 simulated dataset To achieve above, I used $SIM SUBPROB=200 option  however, nonmem would  completely sto

[NMusers] assess model for logistic regression

2008-12-19 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear all, I am trying to run a PK/PD model with PD being binary data. After looking into previous post I got my control stream running. My question is that how to assess the model fit? Can I still use PRED, RES and WRES? Attached is the code I found and used after a bit modification. ##

Re: [NMusers] model validation

2008-12-17 Thread Ethan Wu
: Jun Shen To: Ethan Wu Cc: nmusers@globomaxnm.com Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:33:04 PM Subject: Re: [NMusers] model validation Ethan, There are many different methods and tools to perform model validation. In addition to what Karl has already mentioned, I will also recommend the

[NMusers] model validation

2008-12-11 Thread Ethan Wu
Dear all,    First of all, as new comer to the list, I would like to say Hi to everyone.    I am planning to validate an PK model with a new dataset, my question is that, what is the basic steps of using NONMEM to accomplish it?  Many thanks in advance.