BE basics [Tips / Tricks]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2007-12-20 14:15 (6753 d 23:45 ago) – Posting: # 1404
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Dear Ram!

❝ … that all biological samples follow normal distribution before or after log transformation of data, in present context PK data.


It’s a common consensus that some metrics follow a normal distribution (untransformed data, additive model), e.g., Ae (amount excreted), whilst others follow a log-normal distribution (multiplicative model), e.g., AUC, Cmax,…
Due to the sampling schedule the theoretical continous metric tmax has to be assessed by nonparametric methods (valid for discrete data).

Rationale behind assuming a multiplicative model (i.e., performing the analysis on log-transformed data):Since parametric statistical methods (ANOVA, GLM, t-test, F-test,…) call for normally distributed data, additivity of effects, etc. and some metrics follow a log-distribution, data have to be transformed before analysis.

❝ when I see a statistical report, I won't understand the statistical report after log tranformation of Pk data, like point estimate, CV, ANOVA, p-value, t-test, least square mean (LSM) etc.


What are you problems in particular? Maybe the report is not clearly written. Generally PE and the confidence interval should be back-transformed into the linear domain. Example:
Acceptance range [0.80, 1.25] (Napierian log: [-0.2231, +0.2231])
Unity 1.0 (log: 0)
PE [CI] from study's ANOVA on log-data: -0.02314 [-0.1231, +0.07686] Back-transformation:
PE: ℯ–0.02314 = 0.9771 (or 97.7%)
CI: ℯ–0.1231 = 0.8841 (88.4%), ℯ+0.07686 = 1.080 (108%)

❝ can you give me algorithm of calculation of data.


Please refer to this post. As a starter I would recommend Hauschke et al. (2007), Patterson & Jones (2006), and Chow & Liu (2000).

❝ I think it is very difficult question for you to answer


No, not at all… :wink:
… but not within even a couple of posts!

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