Estimating inestimable standard errors in population pharmacokinetic studies: The bootstrap with winsorization

European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 213-224

  Ette, Ene I ^a   Onyiah, Leonard C ^b  

^a VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^b ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Inestimable standard errors; Population pharmacokinetics; Winsorization

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHARMACOKINETICS; POPULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036656163     PISSN: 03787966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03190460     Document Type: Article

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