Authors: Andrew W Kelman Brian Whiting
Publish Date: 1980/04/01
Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-130
Abstract
Pharmacokinetic and drug response data from individual subjects are analyzed empirically by two different mathematical techniques The drugs involved are the antiarrhythmic agent disopyramide whose kinetics can be described by a twocompartment model and two cardiac glycosides digoxin and βmethyl digoxin for which threecompartment models are appropriate The first analytical approach uses multiple linear regression to describe response in terms of the amount of drug in several kinetic compartments The second approach describes response in terms of the drug concentration in an “effect” compartment Both approaches describe the data equally well and require the same number of parameters for model specification
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