PK (version 1.3-6)

estimator: Function to extract point estimate(s)

Description

Generic function that extracts the point estimate(s) of an object of class PK.

Usage

estimator(obj,se=FALSE)

Value

A matrix containing the point estimate(s) and optionally the standard error(s).

Arguments

obj

An output object of class PK.

se

Logical variable indicating if the standard error should be provided as well (default=FALSE).

Author

Thomas Jaki

Details

Generic function to allow easy extraction of point estimates.

References

Nedelman J. R., Gibiansky E. and Lau D. T. W. (1995). Applying Bailer's method for AUC confidence intervals to sparse sampling. Pharmaceutical Research, 12(1):124-128.

See Also

ci and test

Examples

# Example from Nedelman et al. (1995)
conc <- c(2790, 3280, 4980, 7550, 5500, 6650, 2250, 3220, 213, 636)
time <- c(1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 8, 8, 24, 24)

obj <- auc(conc=conc, time=time, method=c('z', 't'), design='ssd')

estimator(obj,TRUE)