Structural Identifiability in Mixed-Effects Models: Two different approaches
Paper in proceeding, 2015

Structural identifiability analysis is a theoretical concept that ascertains whether unknown model parameters can be uniquely determined for a given experimental setup. If this condition is not fulfilled numerical parameter estimates will be meaningless and the model prediction may not necessarily be reliable. Therefore, structural identifiability should be considered a prerequisite in any project where model predictions are a part of the decision making process. For models defined by ordinary differential equations, there are several methods developed both for the linear and nonlinear cases. In systems pharmacology pharmaceutical drug development projects there is, apart from an interest in understanding the biological mechanisms, also an interest in subject variability. For this, mixed-effects models are typically used. However, despite the wide use of mixed-effects models and being a part of the decision making process in pharmaceutical drugs projects, very little has been done on developing methods for structural identifiability analysis of mixed-effects models. In this paper, we propose and compare two methods for performing such an analysis. The first method is based on applying a set of established statistical theorems while in the second method the system is augmented to yield a random differential equation system format followed by subsequent analysis.

Random Differential Equations

Structural Identifiability

Observability

Mixed-Effects models

Statistics

Systems Pharmacology

Author

David Janzén

The University of Warwick

Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre

AstraZeneca R&D

Mats Jirstrand

AstraZeneca R&D

Neil D. Evans

The University of Warwick

Michael J. Chappell

The University of Warwick

IFAC-PapersOnLine

24058971 (ISSN) 24058963 (eISSN)

Vol. 48 20 563-568

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

Subject Categories

Computational Mathematics

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.10.201

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