pdemenu {npde}R Documentation

Interactive query of the arguments needed for the computation of normalised prediction distribution errors

Description

This function can be used to set interactively the arguments needed to compute the normalised prediction distribution errors. It is called by npde.

Usage

pdemenu()

Details

This function is normally not called by the end-user.

Value

namobs name of the file containing the observed data
namsim name of the file containing the simulated data
iid number of the column containing the patient ID
ix number of the column containing the independent variable (X)
iy number of the column containing the dependent variable (Y)
imdv number of the column containing information about missing data (MDV), 0 if this column is not present
boolsave a boolean (T if results are to be saved to a file, F if not)
type.graph type of graph (one of "eps","jpeg","png","pdf"
namegr name of the file in which graphs are to be saved
calc.npde a boolean (T if npde are to be computed, F otherwise)
calc.npd a boolean (T if npd are to be computed, F otherwise)
nameres name of the file in which numerical results are to be saved
output a boolean (T if the function should return values, F otherwise)
verbose a boolean (T if messages are to be printed as each subject is processed, F otherwise)

Author(s)

Emmanuelle Comets <emmanuelle.comets@bichat.inserm.fr>

References

K. Brendel, E. Comets, C. Laffont, C. Laveille, and F. MentrĂ©. Metrics for external model evaluation with an application to the population pharmacokinetics of gliclazide. Pharmaceutical Research, 23:2036–49, 2006.

See Also

npde, autonpde

Examples

## Not run (needs interactive input)
# x<-pdemenu()

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