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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Pharmacol. 2009 Oct 19;50(1):62–72. doi: 10.1177/0091270009337946

Table 2.

Population pharmacokinetic model development for escitalopram

Covariate Model −2LL Δ −2LL P value
1 Base
model
2729.78
Univariate Forward Selection
1~1 (CL) CYP2C19 Genotype M1 2721.40 −8.38 < 0.05
Age (Centered Power Model) M2 2724.24 −5.54 < 0.05
Weight (Centered Power Model) M3 2725.15 −4.64 < 0.05
BMI (Centered Power Model) M4 2729.30 −0.49 > 0.05
Sex M5 2748.44 18.66 > 0.05
Race M6 2726.60 −3.18 > 0.05
Site (Pittsburgh vs. Pisa) M7 2719.78 −10.01 < 0.05
1~2 (V) Weight (Centered Power Model) M8 2729.08 −0.70 > 0.05
BMI (Centered Power Model) M9 2725.93 −3.85 < 0.05
Age (exponential model) M10 2729.69 −0.09 > 0.05
Site (Pittsburgh vs. Pisa) M11 2728.42 −1.36 > 0.05
Stepwise Backward Elimination
2~1 CL(Genotype+Age+Wgt)+V(BMI) M12 2707.11
Eliminate Weight from CL M13 2711.23 4.13 < 0.05
Eliminate Age from CL M14 2712.83 5.72 < 0.05
Eliminate Genotype from CL M15 2715.02 7.91 < 0.05
Eliminate BMI from V M17 2712.65 5.54 < 0.05
3~1 CL(Genotype+Age+Wgt+Site)+V(BMI) M18 2703.79 −3.32 > 0.05
final model CL(Genotype+Age+Wgt)+V(BMI) M12 2707.11