Dear Colleagues:
This is the first announcement for the 17th Fisher/Shafer NONMEM Workshop
with PLT Tools. The course will be held in Bethesda, Maryland, from Sunday,
November 3, 2013 through Wednesday, November 6, 2013. The course description
and registration details can be accessed at http://www.nonmemcourse.com/
www.nonmemcourse.com. Starting the course on Sunday reduced the room cost at
the Bethesda Hyatt to just $139/night. Dennis and I offer only one Workshop
this year. Our next NONMEM Workshop will probably be in November 2014, and
will likely be in Bethesda as well.
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) and automation (e.g.,
automated covariate searching, analysis automation, and report automation)
are presented in the context of PLT Tools. PLT Tools supports both NMFE and
NMQUAL. Graphics can be produced from PLT Tools extensive graphics options.
XPOSE graphics are also supported by PLT Tools.
Our NONMEM Workshops are now in their 9th year. Dennis Fisher and I spent
the past six years developing PLT Tools. We introduced PLT Tools in 2009 and
have introduced new features in each subsequent workshop. The feedback from
these courses is that workshop participants learned advanced NONMEM analysis
and diagnostic approaches quickly by using PLT Tools.
PLT Tools can be freely downloaded at http://www.pltsoft.com
www.pltsoft.com.
Participants are encouraged to consider two introductory workshops on
Saturday, November 2nd, (the day preceding the workshop):
. Introduction to R: "Data Manipulation" (Saturday morning) and
"Statistics and Graphics" (Saturday afternoon). R is a powerful statistical
programming language. You do not need to know R to take the NONMEM
Workshop, but R is an invaluable tool for preparing data files, performing
statistical analysis, and preparing graphs.
. Introduction to NONMEM (Saturday afternoon): Participants who
would like to brush up on NONMEM before starting the workshop on Wednesday
are encouraged to attend this half-day session.
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 (Wednesday, November 6th). The Wednesday workshop covers PLT Tools in
greater detail, focusing on examples in which PLT Tools handles types of
data analysis that are unwieldy if one attempts to work directly with
NONMEM.
Recent courses have sold out, so we encourage your registering early.
Academic and government discounts are available (see
http://www.nonmemcourse.com/ www.nonmemcourse.com). Please direct
questions to <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected].
Dennis and I hope to see you this fall in Bethesda!
Sincerely,
Steven L. Shafer, MD
Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University
Adjunct Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF
Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia