The workshop on fitting, diagnosing, and drawing inferences from Bayesian Pharmacometric models using Stan (mc-stan.org) will be held on Thursday, 22 September 2016, in Paris, France. There is no registration fee.

Preliminary program:

9:00-9:30 Registration desk

9:30-10:00 Daniel Lee, Stan team - Introduction to the Stan Language and Model Fitting Algorithms

10:00-10:30 Dr Michael Betancourt, Stan team - Using Stan for Bayesian Inference in PK/PD Models

10:30-11:00 Dr Bill Gillepsie, Metrum - Prototype Stan Functions for Bayesian Pharmacometric Modeling

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12:00 Dr Sebastian Weber, Novartis - Bayesian popPK for Pediatrics - bridging from adults to pediatrics

12:00-12:30 Dr Solene Desmee, INSERM - Using Stan for individual dynamic prediction of the risk of death in nonlinear joint models: Application to PSA kinetics and survival in metastatic prostate cancer

12:30-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:00 Dr Marc Vandemeulebroecke, Novartis - A longitudinal Item Response Theory model to characterize cognition over time in elderly subjects

14:00-14:30 William Barcella, University College London - Modeling correlated binary variables: an application to lower urinary tract symptoms

14:30-15:00 Dr Marie-Karelle Riviere - Evaluation of the Fisher information matrix without linearization in nonlinear mixed effects models for discrete and continuous outcomes

15:00-15:30 coffee break

15:30-16:00 Dan Simpson, University of Bath - You should probably know what you're doing: building weakly informative priors for complex models

16:00-16:30 Prof Frederic Bois, INERIS - Bayesian hierarchical modeling in pharmacology and toxicology

16:30-17:00 Discussion open to the floor

Travel information: http://en.parisinfo.com/practical-paris/getting-to-paris

Accomodation information: http://en.parisinfo.com/where-to-sleep-in-paris