PopED: Population (and individual) Experimental Design in R
PopED computes optimal experimental designs for both population and individual studies based on nonlinear mixed-effect models. Often this is based on a computation of the Fisher Information Matrix (FIM).
Installation
You need to have R installed. Download the latest version of R from www.r-project.org. Install PopED in R using one of the following methods:
- latest stable release -- From CRAN. Write at the R command line:
install.packages("PopED")
- Latest development version -- from Github. Note that the command below installs the "master"
(development) branch; if you want the release branch from Github add ref="release"
to the
install_github()
call. The install_github()
approach requires that you build from source,
i.e. make
and compilers must be installed on your system -- see the R FAQ for your operating system;
you may also need to install dependencies manually.
devtools::install_github("andrewhooker/PopED")
Getting started
To get started you need to define
- A model.
- An initial design (and design space if you want to optimize).
- The tasks to perform.
There are a number of functions to help you with these tasks. See ?poped
for more information.
There are several other examples, as r-scripts, in the "examples" folder in the PopED installation directory located at:
system.file("examples", package="PopED")
The same examples are located in the "inst/examples" directory of this repository.