BLOQ - Methods to Impute and Analyze Data with BLOQ Observations
Provides methods for estimating the area under the
concentration versus time curve (AUC) and its standard error in
the presence of Below the Limit of Quantification (BLOQ)
observations. Two approaches are implemented: direct estimation
using censored maximum likelihood, and a two-step approach that
first imputes BLOQ values using various methods and then
computes the AUC using the imputed data. Technical details are
described in Barnett et al. (2020), "Methods for
Non-Compartmental Pharmacokinetic Analysis With Observations
Below the Limit of Quantification," Statistics in
Biopharmaceutical Research.
<doi:10.1080/19466315.2019.1701546>.