The use of simulated annealing for finding optimal population designs

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-35

  Duffull, Stephen B ^a   Retout, Sylvie ^b   Mentré, France ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

D optimality; Fisher information matrix; Optimal designs; Population pharmacokinetics; Simplex; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; DESIGN AIDS; OPTIMIZATION; PHARMACOKINETICS;

OPTIMAL POPULATION DESIGNS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHARMACOKINETICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 0036096120     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(01)00178-X     Document Type: Article

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