Penalized Nonlinear Least Squares Estimation of Time-Varying Parameters in Ordinary Differential Equations
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ArticleKAUST Grant Number
KUS-CI-016-04Date
2012-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599154
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Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used in biomedical research and other scientific areas to model complex dynamic systems. It is an important statistical problem to estimate parameters in ODEs from noisy observations. In this article we propose a method for estimating the time-varying coefficients in an ODE. Our method is a variation of the nonlinear least squares where penalized splines are used to model the functional parameters and the ODE solutions are approximated also using splines. We resort to the implicit function theorem to deal with the nonlinear least squares objective function that is only defined implicitly. The proposed penalized nonlinear least squares method is applied to estimate a HIV dynamic model from a real dataset. Monte Carlo simulations show that the new method can provide much more accurate estimates of functional parameters than the existing two-step local polynomial method which relies on estimation of the derivatives of the state function. Supplemental materials for the article are available online.Citation
Cao J, Huang JZ, Wu H (2012) Penalized Nonlinear Least Squares Estimation of Time-Varying Parameters in Ordinary Differential Equations. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 21: 42–56. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1198/jcgs.2011.10021.Sponsors
Cao's work was supported by a discovery grant from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Huang's research was partly supported by NCI (CA57030), NSF (DMS-0907170), and by Award No. KUS-CI-016-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Wu's work was partially supported by grants from NIH/NIAID.Publisher
Informa UK LimitedPubMed ID
23155351PubMed Central ID
PMC3496750ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1198/jcgs.2011.10021
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