Hi Bob,
Just a point of clarification. If the default sandwich estimator is used t=
o estimate the covariance matrix then the .coi file outputs the inverse of =
this sandwich estimator, ie., R(S^-1)R …correct? If so, and maybe =
this is just semantics but I don’t think we would refer to R(S^-1)R=
as the Fisher information matrix. However, both R and S can be considered=
equivalent FIM under certain regularity conditions. Nevertheless, if one =
wanted to determine a D-optimal design I suppose maximizing the determinant=
of R(S^-1)R could be a reasonable thing to do. Your thoughts?
Ken
Kenneth G. Kowalski
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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: [NMusers] Statistical power computation based o=
n the wald test
Hello all:
I would just like to add some information to help the discussion along.
In addition to the variance-covariance matrix that is outputted in the .cov=
file that Ken mentioned, the Fisher information matrix itself (inverse of =
variance-covariance) is also outputted in the .coi file. Additional files=
, such as .rmt (R matrix), and .smt (S matrix) are also outputted upon user=
request ($COV PRINT=RS, for example)
A test related to Wald and log-likelihood ratio tests is the Lagrange Multi=
plier test. For this purpose, NONMEM outputs the following in the .ext fil=
e:
Iteration -1000000008 lists the partial derivative of the log likelihood (-=
1/2 OFV) with respect to each estimated parameter.
PFIM, POPED, and NONMEM’s $DESIGN calculate the expected FIM with r=
espect to the data, and the expected value R matrix is equivalent to the ex=
pected value of the S matrix. That is, Ey(R)= Ey(S).
Several companion/interface software to NONMEM have additional model evalua=
tion facilities, such as stepwise covariate model (scm) building in Perl Sp=
eaks NONMEM, and Wald test in PDxPop.
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