Prediction uncertainty assessment of a systems biology model requires a sample of the full probability distribution of its parameters

Multi-parameter models in systems biology are typically ‘sloppy’: some parameters or combinations of parameters may be hard to estimate from data, whereas others are not. One might expect that parameter uncertainty automatically leads to uncertain predictions, but this is not the case. We illustrate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: van Mourik, Simon, ter Braak, Cajo, Stigter, Hans, Molenaar, Jaap
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4081139/