Journal
JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 99, Issue 8, Pages 3572-3578Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/jps.22094
Keywords
factorial design; in vitro models; mathematical model; Monte Carlo; nasal drug delivery; drug design
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Monte Carlo simulations were applied to investigate the propagation of uncertainty in both input variables and response measurements on model prediction for nasal spray product performance design of experiment (DOE) models in the first part of this study, with an initial assumption that the models perfectly represent the relationship between input variables and the measured responses. In this article, we discard the initial assumption, and extended the Monte Carlo simulation study to examine the influence of both input variable variation and product performance measurement variation on the uncertainty in DOE model coefficients. The Monte Carlo simulations presented in this article illustrate the importance of careful error propagation during product performance modeling. Our results show that the error estimates based on Monte Carlo simulation result in smaller model coefficient standard deviations than those from regression methods. This suggests that the estimated standard deviations from regression may overestimate the uncertainties in the model coefficients Monte Carlo simulations provide a simple software solution to understand the propagation of uncertainty in complex DOE models so that design space can be specified with statistically meaningful confidence levels. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc and the American Pharmacists Association J Pharm Sci 99 3572-3578, 2010
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