Dear all,
I am reporting about a suspicious behaviour I am observing with CWRESI in 
NONMEM 7.4.1.

I have a patent/metabolite model which fits the data decently in terms of VPCs 
and other diagnostics, but the CWRESI have some EXTREME values (e.g. some are 
less than -15 and more than +40). After checking for outliers or mistakes in 
the dataset and finding no obvious reason for this, I realised something funny 
was happening.

For all those patients with extreme CWRESI values, all the CWRESI were exactly 
the same as WRES. I noticed that this happened for other subjects as well, 
without extreme values. In fact it was observed in a number of consecutive 
patients in the dataset, then the CWRESI and WRES were different once again for 
a number of IDs, then different again.
I pasted below the beginning of my output table (I hope it won't get horribly 
mangled in the email). You can see for ID 1002 things are fine, but for the 
next subject, all CWRESI and WRES are 100% the same, which I find very odd. 
Going on in the table, one then encounters the crazy values (e.g. +40) in those 
patients where CWRESI=WRES.

After thinking that I had messed up something in the code (although I have a 
fairly standard $ERR chunk), I reran the same models with NM 7.3 and no extreme 
CWRESI were to be seen and in no patient CWRESI=WRES. I tried ifortran and 
gfortran, same results.

Not sure if this is a bug or something has changed in the implementation of 
CWRESI in the new version? Anything that needs to be added into the code? Did 
anyone else experience something similar?

Thanks for sharing your experience,
Paolo


ID             TIME            Y               DV              PRED            
WRES            IPRED           IWRES           CWRESI
1002    0       1.11E-07        0       1.11E-07        0       1.11E-07        
-3.9E-06        0
1002    24      0.003244        0       0.000414        0       0.003244        
-0.11491        0
1002    47.17   0.004529        0.0234  0.000633        0.80448 0.004529        
0.66837 0.7499
1002    47.17   0.001072        0.00782 8.13E-05        0.57553 0.001072        
0.8618  0.76168
1002    47.27   0.004351        0       0.000601        0       0.004351        
-0.15409        0
1002    47.27   0.004351        0       0.000601        0       0.004351        
-0.15409        0
1002    48.27   0.94518 0.967   4.5118  -0.95261        0.94518 0.10129 -1.1938
1002    48.27   0.077732        0.0657  0.33279 0.53181 0.077732        
-0.40398        0.55325
1002    49.27   2.7804  2.58    6.0306  -0.4145 2.7804  -0.3187 -0.798
1002    49.27   0.35996 0.339   0.65388 0.57726 0.35996 -0.15724        0.86232
1002    51.25   3.1544  3.09    3.9118  0.63922 3.1544  -0.09023        -0.068
1002    51.25   0.67321 0.814   0.64312 1.0183  0.67321 0.56538 1.0395
1002    53.25   2.2343  2.48    2.0147  1.1994  2.2343  0.48601 0.69346
1002    53.25   0.61916 0.821   0.37813 1.2318  0.61916 0.88123 0.60795
1002    55.23   1.3392  1.56    0.91675 1.0769  1.3392  0.72666 0.70831
1002    55.23   0.41051 0.485   0.16968 1.1534  0.41051 0.49014 -0.11759
1003    0       1.17E-07        0       1.17E-07        0       1.17E-07        
-4.1E-06        0
1003    23.92   2.19E-05        0       0.000106        0       2.19E-05        
-0.00078        0
1003    46.58   4.65E-05        0.0234  0.000208        0.82167 4.65E-05        
0.82766 0.82167
1003    46.58   8.66E-06        0.00782 2.55E-05        0.56411 8.66E-06        
0.99888 0.56411
1003    46.63   4.52E-05        0       0.000202        0       4.52E-05        
-0.0016 0
1003    46.63   4.52E-05        0       0.000202        0       4.52E-05        
-0.0016 0
1003    47.68   1.1432  1.09    5.096   -0.99314        1.1432  -0.20478        
-0.99314
1003    47.68   0.065831        0.053   0.39584 0.43182 0.065831        
-0.50191        0.43182
1003    48.67   5.38    6.44    6.427   0.93526 5.38    0.87171 0.93526
1003    48.67   0.57361 0.907   0.7257  0.60985 0.57361 1.571   0.60985
1003    50.65   3.6587  3.71    4.0526  -0.30631        3.6587  0.061999        
-0.30631
1003    50.65   0.65408 0.662   0.68469 -0.03219        0.65408 0.032746        
-0.03219
1003    52.65   1.5856  1.82    2.0167  -0.16771        1.5856  0.65208 -0.16771
1003    52.65   0.33653 0.402   0.38292 0.080183        0.33653 0.5252  0.080183
1003    54.65   0.58013 0.594   0.86702 -0.41124        0.58013 0.10342 -0.41124
1003    54.65   0.12566 0.12    0.16026 -0.07836        0.12566 -0.12016        
-0.07836
1004    0       1.69E-07        0       1.69E-07        0       1.69E-07        
-6E-06  0
1004    23.83   0.000114        0       0.000285        0       0.000114        
-0.00404        0
1004    46.33   0.000242        0.0234  0.000576        0.8068  0.000242        
0.82074 0.8068
1004    46.33   3.76E-05        0.00782 7.31E-05        0.57412 3.76E-05        
0.99518 0.57412
1004    46.4    0.000233        0       0.000555        0       0.000233        
-0.00824        0
1004    46.4    0.000233        0       0.000555        0       0.000233        
-0.00824        0
1004    47.38   4.3404  4.59    3.1408  0.54238 4.3404  0.25445 0.54238
1004    47.38   0.34788 0.295   0.20459 -0.38164        0.34788 -0.41035        
-0.38164
1004    48.38   5.5978  5.57    4.1733  0.22522 5.5978  -0.02199        0.22522
1004    48.38   0.69068 0.669   0.4033  0.58087 0.69068 -0.08485        0.58087
1004    50.38   3.1389  3.62    2.4749  0.42327 3.1389  0.67784 0.42327
1004    50.38   0.59966 0.721   0.3565  0.7287  0.59966 0.54698 0.7287
1004    52.38   1.4082  1.55    1.1339  -0.29857        1.4082  0.44389 -0.29857
1004    52.38   0.30079 0.434   0.18172 1.7245  0.30079 1.1949  1.7245
1004    54.37   0.54719 0.555   0.45719 -0.3361 0.54719 0.061603        -0.3361
1004    54.37   0.11383 0.114   0.071932        0.039771        0.11383 
0.003873        0.039771







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