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The procedures presented in this book are, either directly or indirectly, concerned with the quantitative identification and comparative evaluation of drug properties. These are key computational methods needed to analyze experiments that search for new drugs and in elucidating, in a rigorous way, metrics that characterize existing drugs. The term “pharmacometrics” might therefore describe the major content of this volume. Two main ideas underly most of the calculations: how much effect? and how much drug? These questions must be answered in any experimental design in which the evaluation of a new compound is to be made by comparing it to a different known compound.
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Tallarida, R.J., Murray, R.B. (1987). Introduction. In: Manual of Pharmacologic Calculations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4974-0_1
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