Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: Analysis and Design of Viral Dynamics Studies
Abstract:
Public Health Sciences Division
Biostatistics
In recent years, investigators have used systems of differential
equations to evaluate pathogenesis due to HIV-1 infection in humans. The
statistical methods used with these studies are either nonexistent or very
simple. In this talk, alternative methods of parameter estimation for
studies where estimation of parameters in systems of differential equations
from longitudinal data is required. In addition, methods which can be used
to design studies of this type will be described.