Re: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

2020-08-13 Thread James G Wright
If only there was an easy way to include all those occasions in the 
model file...


https://www.popypkpd.com/#post-26 <https://www.popypkpd.com/#post-26>

Kind regards, James


On 12/08/2020 17:13, Nick Holford wrote:

Hi Tingjie,

I agree with Leonid's first remark. The natural way to account for the random 
effect associated with each dosing occasion is to use the dosing occasion as 
the covariate and implement the covariate effect using between occasion 
variability. You only need to have enough occasions to cover the number of 
doses which have an observation in the subsequent interval for the subject who 
had the most such occasions. I have used BOV for twice daily dosing over 
several months but only needed 40 occasions to describe all the pa-tients in a 
large study.

You should also be thinking of BOV on bioavailability as well as lag time.

Also consider  testing whether BSV for these absorption parameters is greater 
than zero once you have included BOV. From a mechanistic viewpoint dose to dose 
variation in absorption may be primarily due to between occasion rather than 
between subject differences.

Best wishes,

Nick

--
Nick Holford, Professor Clinical Pharmacology
Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, Bldg 503 Room 302A
University of Auckland,85 Park Rd,Private Bag 92019,Auckland,New Zealand
office:+64(9)923-6730 mobile:NZ+64(21)46 23 53 FR+33(6)62 32 46 72
email: n.holf...@auckland.ac.nz
http://holford.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/
http://orcid.org/-0002-4031-2514
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-Original Message-
From: owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com  On Behalf Of 
Leonid Gibiansky
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2020 2:35 PM
To: Tingjie Guo ; NMusers 
Subject: Re: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

No, there is no other solution except IOV.
One option to lessen the impart of the discrepancy is to have inflated residual 
error in the some interval post-dose
;TAD: time after dose
SD=THETA()
IF(TAD.LE.XX) SD=SD*THETA()

$ERROR
Y=TY*(1+SD*EPS(1))

$SIGMA
1 FIX

Then observations close to the dose (with uncertain dose time) will have less 
influence on PK parameters.
Regards,
Leonid


On 8/12/2020 4:51 AM, Tingjie Guo wrote:

Dear NMusers,

I'm modeling a PK data set with a discrepancy between the documented
dosing time and the actual dosing time. According to our clinical
practice, actual dosing time is always >= documented time. I added a
ALAG with IIV to address this issue using the following formulation.

ALAG1 = THETA(5) * EXP(ETA(5))

This indeed improved the model fitting quite a lot. However, this
parameterization does not reflect the reality as I expect the ETAs
should vary between each dosing event rather than only between patients.
So I expect a "inter dose event variability" would better make sense to
this end. Since there are too many dosing events per patients, a
IOV-like approach is doable but not preferred. And it may not accurately
reflect "inter dose event variability" either. I was wondering if there
is any good solution to this problem? Any comments are very much
appreciated!

Warm regards,
Tingjie Guo



--
James G Wright PhD,
Scientist, Wright Dose Ltd
Tel: UK (0)772 5636914




Re: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

2020-08-13 Thread Tingjie Guo
Dear Leonid, Nick,

Thank you for the suggestions and remarks. Very helpful!

Warm regards,
Tingjie 

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020, at 18:13, Nick Holford wrote:
> Hi Tingjie,
> 
> I agree with Leonid's first remark. The natural way to account for the 
> random effect associated with each dosing occasion is to use the dosing 
> occasion as the covariate and implement the covariate effect using 
> between occasion variability. You only need to have enough occasions to 
> cover the number of doses which have an observation in the subsequent 
> interval for the subject who had the most such occasions. I have used 
> BOV for twice daily dosing over several months but only needed 40 
> occasions to describe all the pa-tients in a large study.
> 
> You should also be thinking of BOV on bioavailability as well as lag time.
> 
> Also consider  testing whether BSV for these absorption parameters is 
> greater than zero once you have included BOV. From a mechanistic 
> viewpoint dose to dose variation in absorption may be primarily due to 
> between occasion rather than between subject differences.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Nick
> 
> --
> Nick Holford, Professor Clinical Pharmacology
> Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, Bldg 503 Room 302A
> University of Auckland,85 Park Rd,Private Bag 92019,Auckland,New Zealand
> office:+64(9)923-6730 mobile:NZ+64(21)46 23 53 FR+33(6)62 32 46 72
> email: n.holf...@auckland.ac.nz
> http://holford.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/
> http://orcid.org/-0002-4031-2514
> Read the question, answer the question, attempt all questions
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com  On 
> Behalf Of Leonid Gibiansky
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2020 2:35 PM
> To: Tingjie Guo ; NMusers 
> Subject: Re: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events
> 
> No, there is no other solution except IOV.
> One option to lessen the impart of the discrepancy is to have inflated 
> residual error in the some interval post-dose
> ;TAD: time after dose
> SD=THETA()
> IF(TAD.LE.XX) SD=SD*THETA()
> 
> $ERROR
> Y=TY*(1+SD*EPS(1))
> 
> $SIGMA
> 1 FIX
> 
> Then observations close to the dose (with uncertain dose time) will 
> have less influence on PK parameters.
> Regards,
> Leonid
> 
> 
> On 8/12/2020 4:51 AM, Tingjie Guo wrote:
> > Dear NMusers,
> > 
> > I'm modeling a PK data set with a discrepancy between the documented 
> > dosing time and the actual dosing time. According to our clinical 
> > practice, actual dosing time is always >= documented time. I added a 
> > ALAG with IIV to address this issue using the following formulation.
> > 
> > ALAG1 = THETA(5) * EXP(ETA(5))
> > 
> > This indeed improved the model fitting quite a lot. However, this 
> > parameterization does not reflect the reality as I expect the ETAs 
> > should vary between each dosing event rather than only between patients. 
> > So I expect a "inter dose event variability" would better make sense to 
> > this end. Since there are too many dosing events per patients, a 
> > IOV-like approach is doable but not preferred. And it may not accurately 
> > reflect "inter dose event variability" either. I was wondering if there 
> > is any good solution to this problem? Any comments are very much 
> > appreciated!
> > 
> > Warm regards,
> > Tingjie Guo
> > 
> 
>

-- 
Warm regards,
Tingjie Guo



RE: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

2020-08-12 Thread Nick Holford
Hi Tingjie,

I agree with Leonid's first remark. The natural way to account for the random 
effect associated with each dosing occasion is to use the dosing occasion as 
the covariate and implement the covariate effect using between occasion 
variability. You only need to have enough occasions to cover the number of 
doses which have an observation in the subsequent interval for the subject who 
had the most such occasions. I have used BOV for twice daily dosing over 
several months but only needed 40 occasions to describe all the pa-tients in a 
large study.

You should also be thinking of BOV on bioavailability as well as lag time.

Also consider  testing whether BSV for these absorption parameters is greater 
than zero once you have included BOV. From a mechanistic viewpoint dose to dose 
variation in absorption may be primarily due to between occasion rather than 
between subject differences.

Best wishes,

Nick

--
Nick Holford, Professor Clinical Pharmacology
Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, Bldg 503 Room 302A
University of Auckland,85 Park Rd,Private Bag 92019,Auckland,New Zealand
office:+64(9)923-6730 mobile:NZ+64(21)46 23 53 FR+33(6)62 32 46 72
email: n.holf...@auckland.ac.nz
http://holford.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/
http://orcid.org/-0002-4031-2514
Read the question, answer the question, attempt all questions

-Original Message-
From: owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com  On Behalf Of 
Leonid Gibiansky
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2020 2:35 PM
To: Tingjie Guo ; NMusers 
Subject: Re: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

No, there is no other solution except IOV.
One option to lessen the impart of the discrepancy is to have inflated residual 
error in the some interval post-dose
;TAD: time after dose
SD=THETA()
IF(TAD.LE.XX) SD=SD*THETA()

$ERROR
Y=TY*(1+SD*EPS(1))

$SIGMA
1 FIX

Then observations close to the dose (with uncertain dose time) will have less 
influence on PK parameters.
Regards,
Leonid


On 8/12/2020 4:51 AM, Tingjie Guo wrote:
> Dear NMusers,
> 
> I'm modeling a PK data set with a discrepancy between the documented 
> dosing time and the actual dosing time. According to our clinical 
> practice, actual dosing time is always >= documented time. I added a 
> ALAG with IIV to address this issue using the following formulation.
> 
> ALAG1 = THETA(5) * EXP(ETA(5))
> 
> This indeed improved the model fitting quite a lot. However, this 
> parameterization does not reflect the reality as I expect the ETAs 
> should vary between each dosing event rather than only between patients. 
> So I expect a "inter dose event variability" would better make sense to 
> this end. Since there are too many dosing events per patients, a 
> IOV-like approach is doable but not preferred. And it may not accurately 
> reflect "inter dose event variability" either. I was wondering if there 
> is any good solution to this problem? Any comments are very much 
> appreciated!
> 
> Warm regards,
> Tingjie Guo
> 



RE: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

2020-08-12 Thread Nick Holford
Hi Tingjie,

I agree with Leonid's first remark. The natural way to account for the random 
effect associated with each dosing occasion is to use the dosing occasion as 
the covariate and implement the covariate effect using between occasion 
variability. You only need to have enough occasions to cover the number of 
doses which have an observation in the subsequent interval for the subject who 
had the most such occasions. I have used BOV for twice daily dosing over 
several months but only needed 40 occasions to describe all the patients in a 
large study.

You should also be thinking of BOV on bioavailability as well as lag time.

Also consider  testing whether BSV for these absorption parameters is greater 
than zero once you have included BOV. From a mechanistic viewpoint dose to dose 
variation in absorption may be primarily due to between occasion rather than 
between subject differences.

Best wishes,

Nick

--
Nick Holford, Professor Clinical Pharmacology
Dept Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, Bldg 503 Room 302A
University of Auckland,85 Park Rd,Private Bag 92019,Auckland,New Zealand
office:+64(9)923-6730 mobile:NZ+64(21)46 23 53 FR+33(6)62 32 46 72
email: n.holf...@auckland.ac.nz
http://holford.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/
http://orcid.org/-0002-4031-2514
Read the question, answer the question, attempt all questions

-Original Message-
From: owner-nmus...@globomaxnm.com  On Behalf Of 
Leonid Gibiansky
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2020 2:35 PM
To: Tingjie Guo ; NMusers 
Subject: Re: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

No, there is no other solution except IOV.
One option to lessen the impart of the discrepancy is to have inflated residual 
error in the some interval post-dose
;TAD: time after dose
SD=THETA()
IF(TAD.LE.XX) SD=SD*THETA()

$ERROR
Y=TY*(1+SD*EPS(1))

$SIGMA
1 FIX

Then observations close to the dose (with uncertain dose time) will have less 
influence on PK parameters.
Regards,
Leonid


On 8/12/2020 4:51 AM, Tingjie Guo wrote:
> Dear NMusers,
> 
> I'm modeling a PK data set with a discrepancy between the documented 
> dosing time and the actual dosing time. According to our clinical 
> practice, actual dosing time is always >= documented time. I added a 
> ALAG with IIV to address this issue using the following formulation.
> 
> ALAG1 = THETA(5) * EXP(ETA(5))
> 
> This indeed improved the model fitting quite a lot. However, this 
> parameterization does not reflect the reality as I expect the ETAs 
> should vary between each dosing event rather than only between patients. 
> So I expect a "inter dose event variability" would better make sense to 
> this end. Since there are too many dosing events per patients, a 
> IOV-like approach is doable but not preferred. And it may not accurately 
> reflect "inter dose event variability" either. I was wondering if there 
> is any good solution to this problem? Any comments are very much 
> appreciated!
> 
> Warm regards,
> Tingjie Guo
> 



Re: [NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

2020-08-12 Thread Leonid Gibiansky

No, there is no other solution except IOV.
One option to lessen the impart of the discrepancy is to have inflated 
residual error in the some interval post-dose

;TAD: time after dose
SD=THETA()
IF(TAD.LE.XX) SD=SD*THETA()

$ERROR
Y=TY*(1+SD*EPS(1))

$SIGMA
1 FIX

Then observations close to the dose (with uncertain dose time) will have 
less influence on PK parameters.

Regards,
Leonid


On 8/12/2020 4:51 AM, Tingjie Guo wrote:

Dear NMusers,

I'm modeling a PK data set with a discrepancy between the documented 
dosing time and the actual dosing time. According to our clinical 
practice, actual dosing time is always >= documented time. I added a 
ALAG with IIV to address this issue using the following formulation.


ALAG1 = THETA(5) * EXP(ETA(5))

This indeed improved the model fitting quite a lot. However, this 
parameterization does not reflect the reality as I expect the ETAs 
should vary between each dosing event rather than only between patients. 
So I expect a "inter dose event variability" would better make sense to 
this end. Since there are too many dosing events per patients, a 
IOV-like approach is doable but not preferred. And it may not accurately 
reflect "inter dose event variability" either. I was wondering if there 
is any good solution to this problem? Any comments are very much 
appreciated!


Warm regards,
Tingjie Guo





[NMusers] Random effect on ALAG between dose events

2020-08-12 Thread Tingjie Guo
Dear NMusers,

I'm modeling a PK data set with a discrepancy between the documented dosing 
time and the actual dosing time. According to our clinical practice, actual 
dosing time is always >= documented time. I added a ALAG with IIV to address 
this issue using the following formulation.

ALAG1 = THETA(5) * EXP(ETA(5))

This indeed improved the model fitting quite a lot. However, this 
parameterization does not reflect the reality as I expect the ETAs should vary 
between each dosing event rather than only between patients. So I expect a 
"inter dose event variability" would better make sense to this end. Since there 
are too many dosing events per patients, a IOV-like approach is doable but not 
preferred. And it may not accurately reflect "inter dose event variability" 
either. I was wondering if there is any good solution to this problem? Any 
comments are very much appreciated!

Warm regards,
Tingjie Guo