Xpose-an S-PLUS based population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model building aid for NONMEM. PsN-Toolkit-a collection of computer intensive statistical methods for non-linear mixed effect modeling using NONMEM. Ellicott City: ICON Development Solutions 1989–2006. Modelling of pain intensity and informative dropout in a dental pain model after naproxcinod, naproxen and placebo administration. from different Excel sheets collected in the clinic can take a lot of time.
Getting all your observations, doses, dosing times, etc. 2009 86(1):84–91.ījornsson MA, Simonsson USH. Getting your dataset in the right format to work with NONMEM can be a terrible job. Modeling and simulation of the time course of asenapine exposure response and dropout patterns in acute schizophrenia. Informative dropout modeling of longitudinal ordered categorical data and model validation: application to exposure-response modeling of physician's global assessment score for ustekinumab in patients with psoriasis. Subject Characteristics - Intent-to-Treat Population for Subjects with Samples for Inclusion in Pharmacokinetic Analysis. The clinical and demographic characteristics of pediatrics included in this analysis are summarized in Table 1. Modelling placebo response in depression trials using a longitudinal model with informative dropout. with LAPLACIAN and SLOW options were employed for all model runs. A joint model for nonlinear longitudinal data with informative dropout. Missing data in model-based pharmacometric applications: points to consider. Used M2 (YLO) method in NONMEM VI with simulations of one compartment model. Gastonguay MR, French JL, Heitjan DF, Rogers JA, Ahn JE, Ravva P. LOCF: a comprehensive comparison based on simulation study and 25 NDA datasets. Statistical handling of drop-outs in longitudinal clinical trials.
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A dropout model is, however, crucial in the presence of informative dropout in order to make realistic simulations of trial outcomes. This study illustrates that ignoring informative dropout can lead to biased parameters in nonlinear mixed effects modeling, but even in cases with few observations or high dropout rate, the bias is relatively low and only translates into small effects on predictions of the underlying effect variable. The bias increased with decreasing number of observations per subject, increasing placebo effect and increasing dropout rate, but was relatively unaffected by the number of subjects in the study. When a dropout model was not included, bias increased up to 8% for the Laplace method and up to 21% if the FOCE-I estimation method was applied. For the base scenario, bias was low, less than 5% for all fixed effects parameters, when a dropout model was used in the estimations. The Laplace and FOCE-I estimation methods in NONMEM 7, and the stochastic simulations and estimations (SSE) functionality in PsN, were used in the analysis. An efficacy variable and dropout depending on that efficacy variable were simulated and model parameters were reestimated, with or without including a dropout model. The objective of this simulation study was to investigate the performance of nonlinear mixed effects models with regard to bias and precision, with and without handling informative dropout. Logo: to the web site of Uppsala University uu.se Uppsala University Publications.
I hope that helps you a bit in troubleshooting.Informative dropout can lead to bias in statistical analyses if not handled appropriately. Are there any subjects who have some sort of data error that may be causing a problem in the model? Are all the doses correct? Are there any concentrations that are wildly different that the others? Is timing accurate (dosing before observations)? Sometimes a data inconsistency may lead to the model being unstable. If when you set Std Err to "None" and the minimization engine still stops, you may want to investigate to see if you have any data problems. You can also generate standard error estimates by running a bootstrap on the model to get distributions of parameter estimates. This may be due to model instability, or model complexity. If this works, then there is a problem with the calculation of standard errors for the parameter estimates. Err set to "None"? This will allow the engine to stop once minimization has completed. Did you already try running the model with Std. This could be due to different numerical optimization techniques employed. First, sometimes the engine gets stuck during minimization (often unlikely) or it gets stuck when calculating the standard errors (ie covariance step). The Laplacian method in NONMEM estimates parameters that are similar, but not identical, to those obtained by using the Laplacian method in NLMIXED. But we can narrow in on the problem withe a few steps. I don't know if this is the specific problem as there could be many challenges to overcome.