Technical data

Phoenix Concepts

Phoenix Terminology

context associations include sort, concentration, time, formulation, X-axis,

Y-axis, etc.

» Data folder - contains all imported data sets, user-created data sets, and

copies of results from operational objects. Data sets in the Data folder can

be contained in workbooks or worksheets.

» Data Link - operational object that links one or more operational objects to

the same data source. A Data Link is only accessible in the Diagram tab.

Data Links allow users to create a place holder for input data that is shared

between objects or workflows in a project.

» Data Source - when data such as a data set in the Data folder or results

from an operational object are mapped to the input of an operational object,

no data are physically transferred into that operational object. Instead, the

operational object is pointed to the location of the data, whether it is in the

Data folder or an operational object’s results, and the information is directly

read from that source.

» Data type - data types in Phoenix refer to two things:

1. Study variables and output parameters.

– Study variables are the variables used in a drug trial and recorded in a

data set. These include common variables such as subject IDs, nominal

and actual sample times, concentration values, volume, treatment

formulations, etc.

– Output parameters are the results of an analysis. These include Tmax,

Cmax, AUCall, Lambda_Z, Clss, Vz, etc.

– Study variables and output parameters can be mapped to context

associations, or inputs, in an operational object.

2. Column data types.

– Numeric-type columns are considered by Phoenix to contain only

numeric values, and the application treats the values in a numeric column

as numeric data. A numeric column contains only numeric values or

substitution values such as those applied by BQL rules.

– Text-type columns in Phoenix can contain mixed numeric and text

values, but Phoenix treats values in a text-type column as non-numeric

values that cannot have certain operations performed on them, such as an

arithmetic column transformation.

» Diagram tab - only available when viewing the workflow level. The Dia-

gram tab displays a schematic of the connections between operational