Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modelling is most often performed using non-linear mixed-effects models based on ordinary differential equations with uncorrelated intra-individual residuals. More sophisticated residual error models as e.g. stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with measurement noise can in many cases provide a better description of the variations, which could be useful in various aspects of modelling. This general approach enables a decomposition of the intra-individual residual variation ε into system noise w and measurement noise e. The present work describes implementation of SDEs in a non-linear mixed-effects model, where parameter estimation was performed by a novel approximation of the likelihood function. This approximation is constructed by combining the First-Order Conditional Estimation (FOCE) method used in non-linear mixed-effects modelling with the Extended Kalman Filter used in models with SDEs. Fundamental issues concerning the proposed model and estimation algorithm are addressed by simulation studies, concluding that system noise can successfully be separated from measurement noise and inter-individual variability.
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Overgaard, R.V., Jonsson, N., Tornøe, C.W. et al. Non-Linear Mixed-Effects Models with Stochastic Differential Equations: Implementation of an Estimation Algorithm. J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn 32, 85–107 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10928-005-2104-x
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