Bayesian Modelling Workshop; June 5, 2002
Faculté de Pharmacie de Chatenay Paris-Sud

Registration for this workshop is closed.

The Bayesian modelling workshop will be tutored by: Leon Aarons, Stephen Duffull, Gordon Graham, Nick Holford, Mats Karlsson, Dave Lunn, Diane Mould, In-Sun Nam and Per Olsson Gisleskog.

The registration fee is set at 65 euro. This will cover our necessary expenses and provide you with coffee/tea and lunch. Sanofi-Synthelabo have kindly provided sponsorship to keep this fee down to its current minimum. To keep matters simple, the fee will be payable in cash only, on the day of the meeting, where you will receive a personal receipt.

The meeting will be held at the Faculté de Pharmacie de Chatenay Paris-Sud in room AB 19/5; it will be signposted inside the university building. The Faculté de Pharmacie is located in the south of Paris. A bus service will be provided by Sanofi-Synthelabo. It will depart from place Denfert-Rochereau, which is a station on the RER B2/B4 line. If you arive by metro, the purple line is metro line 4 and the dark green line is metro line 6.

Directions: when getting out of the RER station, turn right. The bus (Cars Bridet) will be waiting at the start of Bd St Jacques, and will leave at 7h45 sharp! A sign will be placed on front of the bus with the following label : Sanofi-Synthelabo, Faculté de Chatenay, BMW. The bus will also take you back to this place from Chatenay School of Pharmacy at 18h30.

(the star indicates the place Denfert-Rochereau).

If you miss the bus, take the RER B in the direction Robinson and get of at Robinson (final destination) take bus 194 and stop at 'Salvador Allende'.

For people coming in their own car, instructions can be found at this site, with further links to maps and public transport information (mostly in French).

Program:

0830 - 0900 Registration/Welcome
0900 - 1000 A beginners guide to Bayesian philosophy and hierarchical modelling (Steve Duffull/Gordon Graham)
1000 - 1030 Coffee break
1030 - 1045 WinBugs 'annotated example' (Dave Lunn)
1045 - 1230 Hands on PKBUGS/WinBUGS (Steve Duffull/Dave Lunn)
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1400 NONMEM and PRIOR (Mats Karlsson/Per Olsson)
1400 - 1415 NONMEM 'annotated example' (Mats Karlsson)
1415 - 1500 Hands on NONMEM and PRIOR (Nick Holford)
1500 - 1530 Tea/coffee break
1530 - 1600 Application Example (In-Sun Nam)
1600 - 1645 Model selection using Bayesian methods (Dave Lunn)
1645 - 1730 Panel Discussion