Dear Colleagues:
Seats are still available for the sixth Fisher/Shafer NONMEM workshop, which
will be held in Bethesda, Maryland this October.
Dates:
Dates: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 through Sunday, October 28, 2007
Location:
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
One Bethesda Metro Center
Bethesda, MD 20814
Web Site:
http://www.nonmemcourse.com
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 instructors' own experiences.
Registrants are provided with a comprehensive set of graphical tools
programmed in the R statistical language to create high-quality diagnostic
and analysis plots. Registrants are also given Windows 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 or the
R 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.
Although a wide variety of NONMEM examples are provided for training, most
participants bring real data from their work to the course. Typically these
are data sets that require complex models unfamiliar to the participants, or
are data that have been refractory to conventional modeling approaches. The
course provides an opportunity for participants to review their data with
the course instructors. Typically users leave the course with the tools
required to model their data and with insight into the reason the data were
difficult to model.
The workshop runs from Thursday morning until Sunday noon. Each day includes
6 hours of instruction, ending at 3 pm. From 3 pm until 5 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 on Wednesday morning to be useful.
This course will be based on NONMEM 6.
Wednesday Half-Day Courses
Introduction to 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. This
course provides a more extensive introduction to the use of R (and the
closely related language S-Plus). R is 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 statistics, and
generate graphics.
Introduction to NONMEM
Wednesday 1 pm - 5 pm
For those with little or no prior experience with NONMEM, we will provide a
½ day session on the Wednesday afternoon before the course to prepare you
for the Intermediate course described above. Registrants will be taught the
basics of NONMEM: 1) constructing a control stream, 2) constructing a data
file, and 3) running NONMEM.
The course description, schedule, and application for the workshop be found
at http://www.nonmemcourse.com.
Sincerely,
Steven L. Shafer, MD
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University
Adjunct Professor, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF
Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia
October 2007 Fisher/Shafer NONMEM Workshop in Bethesda
Dear Colleagues:
A few seats are still available for the sixth Fisher/Shafer NONMEM workshop,
which will be held in Bethesda, Maryland this October.
Dates:
Dates: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 through Sunday, October 28, 2007
Location:
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
One Bethesda Metro Center
Bethesda, MD 20814
Web Site:
http://www.nonmemcourse.com
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 instructors' own experiences.
Registrants are provided with a comprehensive set of graphical tools
programmed in the R statistical language to create high-quality diagnostic
and analysis plots. Registrants are also given Windows 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 or the
R 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.
Although a wide variety of NONMEM examples are provided for training, most
participants bring real data from their work to the course. Typically these
are data sets that require complex models unfamiliar to the participants, or
are data that have been refractory to conventional modeling approaches. The
course provides an opportunity for participants to review their data with
the course instructors. Typically users leave the course with the tools
required to model their data and with insight into the reason the data were
difficult to model.
The workshop runs from Thursday morning until Sunday noon. Each day includes
6 hours of instruction, ending at 3 pm. From 3 pm until 5 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 on Wednesday morning to be useful.
This course will be based on NONMEM 6.
Wednesday Half-Day Courses
Introduction to 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. This
course provides a more extensive introduction to the use of R (and the
closely related language S-Plus). R is 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 statistics, and
generate graphics.
Introduction to NONMEM
Wednesday 1 pm - 5 pm
For those with little or no prior experience with NONMEM, we will provide a
½ day session on the Wednesday afternoon before the course to prepare you
for the Intermediate course described above. Registrants will be taught the
basics of NONMEM: 1) constructing a control stream, 2) constructing a data
file, and 3) running NONMEM.
The course description, schedule, and application for the workshop be found
at http://www.nonmemcourse.com.
Sincerely,
Steven L. Shafer, MD
Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University
Adjunct Professor, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, UCSF
Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesia & Analgesia