Numerical non-identifiability regions of the minimal model of glucose kinetics: Superiority of Bayesian estimation

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-67

  Pillonetto, Gianluigi ^a   Sparacino, Giovanni ^a   Cobelli, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Insulin sensitivity; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mathematical model; Maximum likelihood estimation; Minimum variance estimate; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INSULIN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATION;

GLUCOSE;

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0037633098     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(03)00044-0     Document Type: Article

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