Oral: Stuart Beal Methodology Session

Group comparison with fused lasso penalized likelihood: an alternative to test based methods

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Context: Group comparaison methods for Non-linear mixed effects models (NLMEM) enable to identify parameters whose estimations significantly vary across the…

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Simulated model based adaptive optimal design of adult to children bridging study using FDA stopping criteria.

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: In traditional design, the size of the study population is regularly calculated a priori using power calculations which are dependent…

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Prediction of pharmacokinetic interactions for drugs with a long half-life – evidence for the need of model-based analysis

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: DDI studies are commonly performed as single-dose crossover studies where AUC and Cmax w/wo perpetrator drug are compared [1,2]. The…

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Averaged Model Based Decision Making for Dose Selection Studies

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objective: Approximately one third of the cost of a drug development program incurs in Phase III clinical studies, hence the correctness…

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Preconditioning of Nonlinear Mixed Effect models for Stabilization of the Covariance Matrix Computation

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:  As the importance of pharmacometric analysis increases, more and more complex models are introduced and computational stability starts to become a bottleneck. We…

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