Facilitating pharmacometric workflow with the metrumrg package for R

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-85

  Bergsma, Timothy T ^a   Knebel, William ^a   Fisher, Jeannine ^a   Gillespie, William R ^a   Riggs, Matthew M ^a   Gibiansky, Leonid ^b   Gastonguay, Marc R ^a  

^a Metrum Institute   (United States)

^b QuantPharm LLC 49 Flints Grove Drive   (United States)

Author keywords

Metrumrg; NONMEM ; Pharmacometrics; R software; Workflow

Indexed keywords

DATA PREPARATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; METRUMRG; MODELING SOFTWARES; PHARMACOMETRICS; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES; WORKFLOW;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METRUMRG PACKAGE; MODEL; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PHARMACOKINETICS; PHARMACOMETRICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; R PACKAGE;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHARMACOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84869861801     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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