Subject:
Fisher/Shafer NONMEM 6 Course Availability - Ghent, Belgium
Dates:
Dates: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 through Sunday, March 11, 2007
Course Organizers:
Dennis Fisher, MD, The "P <" Company
Steve Shafer, MD, Stanford University
Web Site:
http://www.nonmemcourse.com
There are still seats available for the fourth Fisher/Shafer NONMEM 6
Workshop will be held Wednesday, March 7, 2007 through Sunday, March 11,
2007 at Het Pand in Ghent, Belgium.
The Fisher/Shafer NONMEM Workshop covers NONMEM (version 6), data handling,
model building, and model diagnostics. The workshop includes an extensive
set of example problems ranging from simple didactic examples to demonstrate
basic concepts to complex examples from the instructor's own experience.
Registrants are provided with an comprehensive set of graphical tools
programmed in the R and S-plus statistical languages to create high-quality
diagnostic and analysis plots. Registrants are given Windows and UNIX
scripts to organize NONMEM analyses and provide audit trails.
The distinguishing characteristic of this workshop is that each individual
brings his or her laptop computer. A copy of NONMEM, the GNU Fortran
Compiler, the Windows and UNIX scripts, the full set of examples, and R are
all provided to the users on a USB drive (flash drive) on Thursday morning
(Wednesday afternoon for those in the Introduction to NONMEM workshop - see
below). The entire course is run from the USB drive, leaving no footprint on
the registrant's computer. NONMEM is removed at the end of the course, but
the other software is in the public domain and may be kept after the course.
The registrant follows along with the instructors, testing examples on his
or her laptop as the instructor works through the concepts.
The workshop runs from Thursday morning until Sunday noon. Each day includes
6 hours of instruction, ending at 2 pm. From 2 pm until 4 pm, registrants
work on either the example problems, or on a data set of the registrant's
choosing (frequently a difficult problem from work).
The course is intended for individuals at the intermediate level. Those
without substantial NONMEM experience are urged to sign up for the
beginner's workshop described below. This should be adequate preparation to
allow the novice to follow the main workshop.
Because NONMEM is such a flexible tool, experienced NONMEM users have found
the NONMEM Workshop valuable. In part, this is because the course
instructors bring their unique perspectives to the application of NONMEM to
data analysis. It is also because of the breadth of examples provided.
Experienced users will find the introduction on Wednesday afternoon too
basic, but they may find the R workshop or the Excel workshop on Wednesday
morning to be useful.
This course will be based on NONMEM 6, the recently released version of
NONMEM from Globomax.
Wednesday Half-Day Courses
Programming in R
Wednesday, 8 am - noon
This course, given Wednesday morning, covers the R statistical programming
language. Within the regular workshop, all participants will be introduced
to the use of R to create diagnostic graphics for NONMEM. However, minimal
time will be devoted to understanding the code used in these graphics. For
those interested in a more extensive introduction to the use of R (and
S-Plus), a remarkable tool for data management, graphics, and statistics,
this session will focus on the use of R to read data, assemble a NONMEM
dataset, perform basic (and complicated statistics), and generate graphics.
Introduction to NONMEM
Wednesday 1 pm - 5 pm
For those with no prior experience with NONMEM, we will provide a day
session on the Wednesday afternoon before the course to prepare you for the
Intermediate course described above. Registrants will be taught the basic of
NONMEM – the structure of a control stream and data file and the basic
mechanics of running NONMEM
The course description, schedule, and applications can be found at
www.nonmemcourse.com.
Sincerely,
Steve Shafer
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Steven L. Shafer, MD
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University
Adjunct Professor, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF
Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia
Office: 650 725-5866 FAX: 650 969-3315
Cell: 650 704-0558 Pager: 650 723-8222, pager 13477
Address:
Department of Anesthesia
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305