期刊
PHARMACEUTICS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13010042
关键词
mixture distribution; mixture model; high dimensional statistics; nonparametric maximum likelihood; primal-dual interior-point method; adaptive grid; population model
资金
- NIH [RR11526, GM65619, GM068968, EB005803, EB001978, HD070886]
- [NSF/DMS-0505712]
Population pharmacokinetic modeling is essential for drug development and optimal dosing. Our nonparametric maximum likelihood method allows for estimating multivariate mixing distributions without assumptions about shape. This approach is discrete and applicable to high-dimensional mixture models.
Population pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling has become a cornerstone of drug development and optimal patient dosing. This approach offers great benefits for datasets with sparse sampling, such as in pediatric patients, and can describe between-patient variability. While most current algorithms assume normal or log-normal distributions for PK parameters, we present a mathematically consistent nonparametric maximum likelihood (NPML) method for estimating multivariate mixing distributions without any assumption about the shape of the distribution. This approach can handle distributions with any shape for all PK parameters. It is shown in convexity theory that the NPML estimator is discrete, meaning that it has finite number of points with nonzero probability. In fact, there are at most N points where N is the number of observed subjects. The original infinite NPML problem then becomes the finite dimensional problem of finding the location and probability of the support points. In the simplest case, each point essentially represents the set of PK parameters for one patient. The probability of the points is found by a primal-dual interior-point method; the location of the support points is found by an adaptive grid method. Our method is able to handle high-dimensional and complex multivariate mixture models. An important application is discussed for the problem of population pharmacokinetics and a nontrivial example is treated. Our algorithm has been successfully applied in hundreds of published pharmacometric studies. In addition to population pharmacokinetics, this research also applies to empirical Bayes estimation and many other areas of applied mathematics. Thereby, this approach presents an important addition to the pharmacometric toolbox for drug development and optimal patient dosing.
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