POPKAN – Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis using Bayesian Inference

Jon Wakefield

Imperial College, London, UK

POPKAN is a computer program that carries out the Bayesian analysis of population pharmacokinetic data. The program is menu-driven, is called from within SAS and runs on a 486. The implementation is completely Bayesian and utilizes recent advances in Bayesian computation to correctly acknowledge the uncertainty in unknown parameters.

Features include:

  • informative graphical display of results,
  • robust inference through the use of t-distributions,
  • extensive model-checking facilities,
  • a simulation module which allows the information to be provided by a particular experiment to be determined.

Reference: PAGE 3 (1994) Abstr 844 [www.page-meeting.org/?abstract=844]

Poster: Software Demonstration