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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn. 2009 Aug 13;36(4):367–379. doi: 10.1007/s10928-009-9127-7

Table 1.

Summary of relative bias (RB) for parameter estimates and absolute estimation error (AEE) for standard error estimates for all parameters and all models.

Poisson model
λ Ω(λ)
RB (parameter) (%) −0.6 0.75
AEE (standard error) (%) −0.37 −0.13
Poisson model with Markov element
λ1 λ2 Ω(λ1) Ω(λ2) Cov(λ1–λ2)
RB (parameter) (%) −0.41 −0.07 −2.39 −4.13 −1.36
AEE (standard error) (%) −0.13 0.17 −1.33 −0.93 −0.33
Poisson model with mixtures in individual observations
λ1 λ2 MP Ω(λ1)
RB (parameter) (%) −0.4 0.54 −0.05 −0.13
AEE (standard error) (%) −0.47 −1.70 −0.55 −0.61
Zero inflated Poisson model
λ1 P0 Ω(λ1) Ω(P0)
RB (parameter) (%) −04.05 −0.75 −1.08 1.62
AEE (standard error) (%) 0.14 −0.74 −0.64 −0.59
Generalized Poisson model
λ1 δ Ω(λ1) Ω(δ)
RB (parameter) (%) −0.19 −0.21 −1.03 1.26
AEE (standard error) (%) 0.02 −0.79 −0.41 −1.61
Negative binomial model
λ1 Ovdp Ω(λ1) Ω(Ovdp)
RB (parameter) (%) −0.02 −0.92 −1.42 2.38
AEE (standard error) (%) −0.01 −1.36 −0.79 −0.33