Stochastic optimization algorithms of a Bayesian design criterion for Bayesian parameter estimation of nonlinear regression models: application in pharmacokinetics
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This article proposes three stochastic algorithms to optimize a Bayesian design criterion for Bayesian estimation of the parameters of nonlinear regression models; this criterion is the information expected from an experiment. The first algorithm is based on a stochastic version of the simplex with an adaptive sampling procedure. The others are stochastic approximation algorithms: the Kiefer-Wolfowitz and the pseudogradient algorithms. We first present the information criterion and the optimization algorithms. The efficiency of each algorithm for optimizing this Bayesian design criterion is then assessed by a simulation study for a nonlinear model assuming a discrete prior distribution. An application for designing an experiment to estimate the kinetics of radioiodine thyroid uptake is then proposed.
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