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The Trial Simulator (Pharsight Corp., http //www.pharsight.com) is a comprehensive and powerful tool for the simulation of clinical trials. Population PK/PD models developed with tools mentioned in Section 17.10.3 can be implemented in a Trial Simulator. In addition, treatment protocols, inclusion criteria, and observations can be specified. Also covariate distribution models, compliance models, and drop-out models can be specified. All of these models can be implemented via a graphical user interface. For the analysis of simulation results a special version of S-Plus is implemented and results can also be exported in different formats, like SAS. 

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This ability is available in many software programs. NONMEM (Iconus, EUicott City, MD) has been widely used to estimate population models arising from both sparse and intensely sampled data. Other programs include WinNonMix (Pharsight Corp., Palo Alto, CA), Kinetica 2000 (Innaphase Corp, Philadelphia, PA), and Pop-Kinetics (SAAM Institute, Seattle, WA). ADAPT II and WinNonlin have focused on PK/PD models and have been combined with Bayesian approaches to estimate population models. 

The AIC used by Yamaoka et al. is not the exact AIC reported by Akaike but is slightly different. However, its use is valid if all the models under consideration all have the same log-likelihood function. Yamaoka et al. (1978) demonstrated the use of the AIC by distinguishing between mono-exponential, bi-exponential, and tri-exponential equations. However, not all software packages use this definition. For example, WinNonlin (Pharsight Corp., Cary NC) uses Eq. (1.45) with p equal to only the number of structural model parameters and does not include the estimated residual variance. SAAM II (SAAM Institute, Seattle, WA) calculates the AIC as... 

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