Population Pharmacometrics Modeling with Monolix- reduced fee for trainees

All, registration is now open for the ASoP workshop: *Population Pharmacometrics Modeling with Monolix* Please note that we now have a reduced workshop fee for trainees (students and post-doctoral fellows): - $675.00 for ASoP members - $975.00 for non-ASoP members To learn more about the American Society of Pharmacometrics, visit our website: www.go-asop.org. To register for the workshop, visit http://www.go-asop.org/monolix-workshop On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:11 AM, ASoP Mail <mail > The American Society of Pharmacometrics (ASoP) is sponsoring a 2 day > workshop: *Population Pharmacometrics Modeling with Monolix*. The > instructor for this workshop is *Marc Lavielle*. > > *Date:* May 17-18, 2012 > > *Workshop fee* (includes coffee and lunch on both days): > $975.00 for ASoP members > $1275.00 for non-ASoP members to join ASoP, visit our website: > www.go-asop.org. > > *Location*: Fairfield Inn and Suites > 315 Davidson Ave., Somerset NJ 08873 > Phone #732-627-8483 > > http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/sosfi-fairfield-inn-and-suites-some rset > You must inform the hotel you are attending the ASoP workshop to get the > reduced room rate of $119 (includes breakfast). > > *Software*: We will use Monolix for illustrating the concepts and > methods presented during the workshop. The course will include several > hands-on sessions, with attendees working on their own laptop. Monolix 4. 1 > can be downloaded from the Lixoft website: > www.lixoft.com/monolix/get-monolix. Once there, fill in the fields > selecting MonolixCourse for the question How will you use the > software? In the message frame put in the name of this workshop. Indus try > participants will then receive a free 3 month license. (Monolix remains > free of charge for academic participants). > > *Workshop Summary*: This workshop aims to present a rigorous approach of > pharmacometrics model building. It focuses on the truly essential > activities of the modeler: easily and rapidly fitting complex models on > data, and using reliable tools to select and validate the best models. > The agenda will cover the implementation of basic and complex > pharmacometrics models, including models for continuous, categorical, cou nt > and time to event data. If the Pharmacometrics model is a fundamental > component of the model, the statistical component is also essential to > describe both the inter-subject and intra-subject variability. A strong > emphasis will be put in this workshop on presenting statistical models in a > simple but very rigorous manner. > The modelers role is not to know and master all the technical details of > the algorithms implemented in the software tools. It is nevertheless > important to understand what the algorithms are doing and to verify the > validity of their results. We will explain in this course the principles of > the SAEM algorithm and other algorithms developed for a practical use of > non linear mixed effects models. We will show how to validate their > convergence. > > *Marc Lavielle* has been leading the Monolix project since 2004. He is a > Research Director at Inria Saclay, France. He created and led the CNRS > Research Group Statistics and Health. He is a member of the French > National Council for Biotechnologies. He has worked on the development of > maximum-likelihood estimation methods, applied to a broad area of > applications. He has co-authored several papers on various aspects of > statistical estimation and on SAEM algorithm. Several of the methods that > he developed are implemented in the Monolix software. > > Registration is limited to 40 participants so early registration is > suggested. To register, visit http://www.go-asop.org/monolix-workshop > > We look forward to your attendance and participation! > Questions? Please contact us at mail > >