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      <h1>Calculation of time weighted average concentrations with mkin</h1>
                        <h4 class="author">Johannes Ranke</h4>
            
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<p>Since version 0.9.45.1 of the ‘mkin’ package, a function for calculating time weighted average concentrations for decline kinetics (<em>i.e.</em> only for the compound applied in the experiment) is included. Strictly speaking, they are maximum moving window time weighted average concentrations, <em>i.e.</em> the maximum time weighted average concentration that can be found when moving a time window of a specified width over the decline curve.</p>
<p>Time weighted average concentrations for the SFO, FOMC and the DFOP model are calculated using the formulas given in the FOCUS kinetics guidance <span class="citation">(FOCUS Work Group on Degradation Kinetics 2014, 251)</span>:</p>
<p>SFO:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[c_\textrm{twa} = c_0 \frac{\left( 1 - e^{- k t} \right)}{ k t} \]</span></p>
<p>FOMC:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[c_\textrm{twa} = c_0 \frac{\beta}{t (1 - \alpha)}
                   \left( \left(\frac{t}{\beta} + 1 \right)^{1 - \alpha} - 1 \right) \]</span></p>
<p>DFOP:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[c_\textrm{twa} = \frac{c_0}{t} \left(
  \frac{g}{k_1} \left( 1 - e^{- k_1 t} \right) +
  \frac{1-g}{k_2} \left( 1 - e^{- k_2 t} \right)  \right) \]</span></p>
<p>HS for <span class="math inline">\(t &gt; t_b\)</span>:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[c_\textrm{twa} = \frac{c_0}{t} \left(
  \frac{1}{k_1} \left( 1 - e^{- k_1 t_b} \right) +
  \frac{e^{- k_1 t_b}}{k_2} \left( 1 - e^{- k_2 (t - t_b)} \right)  \right) \]</span></p>
<p>Often, the ratio between the time weighted average concentration <span class="math inline">\(c_\textrm{twa}\)</span> and the initial concentration <span class="math inline">\(c_0\)</span></p>
<p><span class="math display">\[f_\textrm{twa} = \frac{c_\textrm{twa}}{c_0}\]</span></p>
<p>is needed. This can be calculated from the fitted initial concentration <span class="math inline">\(c_0\)</span> and the time weighted average concentration <span class="math inline">\(c_\textrm{twa}\)</span>, or directly from the model parameters using the following formulas:</p>
<p>SFO:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[f_\textrm{twa} = \frac{\left( 1 - e^{- k t} \right)}{k t} \]</span></p>
<p>FOMC:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[f_\textrm{twa} = \frac{\beta}{t (1 - \alpha)}
                   \left( \left(\frac{t}{\beta} + 1 \right)^{1 - \alpha} - 1 \right) \]</span></p>
<p>DFOP:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[f_\textrm{twa} = \frac{1}{t} \left(
  \frac{g}{k_1} \left( 1 - e^{- k_1 t} \right) +
  \frac{1-g}{k_2} \left( 1 - e^{- k_2 t} \right)  \right) \]</span></p>
<p>HS for <span class="math inline">\(t &gt; t_b\)</span>:</p>
<p><span class="math display">\[f_\textrm{twa} = \frac{1}{t} \left(
  \frac{1}{k_1} \left( 1 - e^{- k_1 t_b} \right) +
  \frac{e^{- k_1 t_b}}{k_2} \left( 1 - e^{- k_2 (t - t_b)} \right)  \right) \]</span></p>
<p>Note that a method for calculating maximum moving window time weighted average concentrations for a model fitted by ‘mkinfit’ or from parent decline model parameters is included in the <code><a href="../reference/max_twa_parent.html">max_twa_parent()</a></code> function. If the same is needed for metabolites, the function <code><a href="https://rdrr.io/pkg/pfm/man/max_twa.html">pfm::max_twa()</a></code> from the ‘pfm’ package can be used.</p>
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<div id="ref-FOCUSkinetics2014">
<p>FOCUS Work Group on Degradation Kinetics. 2014. <em>Generic Guidance for Estimating Persistence and Degradation Kinetics from Environmental Fate Studies on Pesticides in Eu Registration</em>. 1.1 ed. <a href="http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/degradation-kinetics" class="uri">http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/degradation-kinetics</a>.</p>
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