Figure 1

Variability of the simulated INR by treatment intensity. Each boxplot represents the distribution of INR values (reaction times relative to normal average) in a set of simulations. The biological levels of all coagulation proteins have been specified with truncated Gaussian distributions, taking the Hockin-Mann default values as means and applying the coefficient of variation from the literature reports in humans (table 1) to compute the standard deviation. The vitamin-K dependent factors were then reduced to the level specified on the x axis, corresponding to progressive treatment intensities. Horizontal lines in boxes represent the first, second and third quartiles. Dots represent outliers. The figure shows that the variability of the INR values increases when the levels of the vitamin-K dependent factors are decreasing.