Other Stopping Rules

Alternative stopping rules for variable inclusion are available, including minimizing the residual sum of squares X) =i (% Ji) - This quantity can be written for the squared multiple correlation coefficient as 

Y i=i (y - y) (l - -R )- This sum will be minimized if is maximized, but this approach is problematic because R always increases as new variables are included in the model. As a consequence, minimizing the residual sum of squares will always select all variables. A better way is for us to use the adjusted R, R, given by 

An increasingly popular stopping rule for variable selection involves calculating a statistic referred to as PRESS. PRESS stands for predicted residual error sum of squares. To calculate PRESS, the data must be split into at least 

Baumann, Albert, and von Korff have reviewed the relative merits of this and other CV methods based on both published results and their simulation experiments. They found that for generating overfitted models, i/-fold CV was the worst, followed by LOO-CV and then LMO-CV. These authors also report on the effect of varying the split between the construction set and the validation set and conclude that the best results come from models constructed from LMO-CV where the size of the construction dataset is smaller than the validation set. In fact, what Baumann et al. found was that beyond a certain minimum size construction set, which in their case was three times the number of true x variables (i.e., variables that generated the responses), overfitting begins to occur. 

To illustrate some of the techniques that have been discussed in this chapter, we have chosen the charge-transfer dataset introduced earlier in the 

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In conclusion, TDM is not a standard of care issue with other SSRIs but can be used if a patient has not benefited from the lowest, usually effective dose and can be used to rule out persistent effects after stopping fluoxetine (300). 

In the hospital setting, drugs are prescribed on a particular page of the patient s hospital chart called the physician s order sheet (POS) or chart order. The contents of that prescription are specified in the medical staff rules by the hospital s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. The patient s name is typed or written on the form therefore, the orders consist of the name and strength of the medication, the dose, the route and frequency of administration, the date, other pertinent information, and the signature of the prescriber. If the duration of therapy or the number of doses is not specified (which is often the case), the medication is continued until the prescriber discontinues the order or until it is terminated as a matter of policy routine, eg, a stop-order policy. 

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