Dear Colleagues:
This is the third and last announcement for the 14th Fisher/Shafer NONMEM
Workshop with PLT Tools. The course will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, from
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 through Saturday, November 12th, 2011. You can
find the course description and registration details at
http://www.nonmemcourse.com www.nonmemcourse.com. All of the academic
seats are now spoken for. However, occasionally there are cancellations. If
you are interested in attending at the academic rate please contact Dr.
Fisher ([email protected]) to place your name on the waiting list.
This is an intermediate to advanced course on the use of the NONMEM System,
closely integrated with the PLT Tools graphical user interface for the
NONMEM System. Although the focus of the workshop is NONMEM, the more
advanced diagnostics (e.g., visual predictive check, log-likelihood
profiling, bootstrap analysis, jackknife validation, automated covariate
searching, analysis and report automation) are presented in the context of
PLT Tools because it automates the generation of these diagnostics.
The workshop will be based on NONMEM VI, the standard version of NONMEM for
most users. PLT Tools fully supports NONMEM 7. PLT Tools also supports
NMQUAL, for users who have incorporated NMQUAL into their work environment.
Our NONMEM Workshops are now in their 7th year. Dennis and I have spent the
past five years developing PLT Tools. We introduced PLT Tools in Bethesda,
Maryland in 2009, and have used the biannual workshops to introduce new
features of PLT Tools. The feedback from the five courses since we
introduced PLT Tools is that workshop participants appreciated having access
to the powerful features of the PLT Tools program.
You can download the fully functional unlicensed version of PLT Tools from
http://www.pltsoft.com www.pltsoft.com.
Participants are encouraged to consider two introductory courses:
. Introduction to R: The day before the workshop (Tuesday, November 8th),
we teach two half-day courses: "Data Manipulation" (Tuesday morning) and
"Statistics and Graphics (Tuesday afternoon).
. Introduction to NONMEM: Participants who would like to brush up on
NONMEM before starting the workshop on Wednesday are encouraged to attend
this half-day session (Tuesday afternoon).
Participants interested in additional training in PLT Tools can sign up for
a half-day course devoted to PLT Tools we give on the afternoon of the last
day (Saturday, November 12th). The Saturday workshop covers PLT Tools in
greater detail, focusing on a series of examples in which PLT Tools handles
types of data analysis that are unwieldy if one attempts to work directly
with NONMEM.
Dennis and I hope to see you in November in Bethesda!
Sincerely,
Steven L. Shafer, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Columbia University
Adjunct Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University
Adjunct Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF
Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia