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Date of Award

2008

Document Type

Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Department

Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences

First Advisor

Paul Williams

First Committee Member

James Uchizono

Second Committee Member

Ene Ette

Third Committee Member

Rajul Patel

Fourth Committee Member

Myo-Kyoung Kim

Abstract

Drug development is time consuming, expensive with high failure rates. It takes 10-15 years for a drug to go from discovery to approval, while the mean cost of developing a drug is $1.5 billions dollars. Pharmacometric models (PM) play a pivotal role in knowledge driven drug development and these models require validation prior to application. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the posterior predictive check (PPC) and the bootstrap as population model validation tools. PPC was evaluated to determine, if it was able to distinguish between population pharmacokinetic (PPK) models that were developed/estimated from influence data versus models that were not derived/estimated from influence data. Bootstrap was examined to see if there was a correspondence between the root mean squared prediction errors (RMSPE) for serum concentrations when estimated by external prediction methods versus when estimated by the standard bootstrap. In the case of PPC, C last , C first -C last and C mid values from initial data sets were compared to corresponding posterior distributions. In the case of no influence data for C last , C first -C last and C mid on average 76%, 30% and 52% of the values from the posterior distributions were below the initial C last , C first -C last and C mid on average 93%, 13% and 67% of the values from the posterior distributions were below the initial C last , C first -C last and C mid respectively. PPC was able to classify models from influence versus no influence data. In the case of bootstrap when the original model was used to predict into the external data the WRMSPE for drug 1, drug 2, drug 3, drug 4 and simulated data set was 10.40 mg/L, 20.36 mg/L, 0.72 mg/L, 15.27 mg/L and 14.24 mg/L respectively. From the bootstrap the improved WRMSPE for drug 1 drug 2, drug 3, drug 4 and simulated data set was 9.35 mg/L, 19.85 mg/L, 0.50 mg/L, 14.44 mg/L and 13.98mg/L respectively. The bootstrap provided estimates of WRMSPE that corresponded to the external validation methods. From the results obtained, it was concluded that both the PPC and the Bootstrap were demonstrated to have value as validation tools.

Pages

245

ISBN

9780549887997

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