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Dear R users, I am pleased to announce the release of three new R packages: optimbase, optimsimplex, and neldermead. - optimbase provides a set of commands to manage an abstract optimization method. The goal is to provide a building block for a large class of specialized optimization methods. This package manages: the number of variables, the minimum and maximum bounds, the number of non linear

Dear R users, I am pleased to announce the release of three new R packages: optimbase, optimsimplex, and neldermead. - optimbase provides a set of commands to manage an abstract optimization method. The goal is to provide a building block for a large class of specialized optimization methods. This package manages: the number of variables, the minimum and maximum bounds, the number of non linear

Dear all, at the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) we are looking for highly motivated science/engineering PhD graduates to join our pharmacometrics group as a post-doctoral fellow. Pharmacometrics is an emerging discipline that applies mathematical modelling and simulation to pharmacology, aiding the interpretation of data from clinical trials,

CRAN (and crantastic) updates this week New packages ------------ * allan (1.0) Alan Lee http://crantastic.org/packages/allan Automates Large Linear Analysis Model Fitting * andrews (1.0) Jaroslav Myslivec http://crantastic.org/packages/andrews Andrews curves for visualization of multidimensional data * anesrake (0.3) Josh Pasek http://crantastic.org/packages/anesrake This

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling and simulation By Dr. Jan Freijer September 24, 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.can.nl/events/details.php?id=57 This course is aimed at users of R or S-PLUS in the bio-pharmaceutical sciences who would like to use R for clinical trial simulations. topics include Working with packages in R - MASS -

Dear all, We are looking for bright and motivated candidates to join our pharmacometric modelling team at the University of Cape Town. Pharmacometrics is an emerging discipline that uses mathematical and statistical tools to quantify drug, disease, and trial information to aid efficient drug development and/or regulatory decisions. It designs and applies mathematical models to describe the

Dr. Andrzej Galecki will present his online course "Mixed Effects Models with Applications" May 12 ? June 9 at statistics.com. This course will explain the basic theory of linear and non-linear mixed effects models, including hierarchical linear models (HLM). It will outline the algorithms used for estimation, primarily for models involving normally distributed errors, and will provide

Dear R-users, I want to give a try to Sweave and Latex but I am having some problems compiling my .Rnw files within Kile. I have followed the recommendations given in http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/help/08/10/4277, but they do not seem to address my particular problem. I am using R 2.11.0 and Kile v 2.0.83 on an OpenSUSE11.2 installation (KDE 4.3 environment). According to the log (see

TOP Institute Pharma (TI Pharma) has granted our proposal to set up a mechanism-based PKPD modelling platform. This platform focuses on the transfer of knowledge from academia to the pharmaceutical industry and is a collaborative effort of four excellent academic institutes and six leading global pharmaceutical industries. Unique to this platform is the availability of shared databases on

Two Postdoctoral fellows (fulltime) Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Job description ________________________________________ TOP Institute Pharma (TI Pharma) has granted our proposal to set up a mechanism-based PK-PD modelling platform. This platform focuses on the transfer of knowledge from academia to the pharmaceutical industry and is a collaborative effort of

________________________________ Principal Post-Doctoral Fellow PKPD modelling platform (full time) Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands <javascript:doredirect();> Job description ________________________________ TOP Institute Pharma (TI Pharma) has granted our proposal to set up a mechanism-based PK-PD modelling platform. This platform focuses on the transfer of

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Modelling of Cardiovascular Safety (full time) Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands <javascript:doredirect();> Job description TOP Institute Pharma (TI Pharma) has granted our proposal to set up a mechanism-based PKPD modelling platform. This platform focuses on the transfer of knowledge from academia to the pharmaceutical industry and is a

While working on 'random walk' applications, I got interested in optimizing noisy objective functions. As an (artificial) example, the following is the Rosenbrock function, where Gaussian noise of standard deviation `sd = 0.01` is added to the function value. fn <- function(x) (1+rnorm(1, sd=0.01)) * adagio::fnRosenbrock(x) To smooth out the noise, define another

Metrum Institute (http://metruminstitute.org/) is offering a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacometrics. It will focus on the development of computational methods and open-source software tools for Bayesian modeling and simulation relevant to pharmacometric applications. An ideal candidate will have a post-graduate degree in statistics, pharmacokinetics, bioengineering or other related

Dear R-users, I am going through the last steps of package prep before submission to CRAN and I have the following problem. My package contains a single vignette written in optimbase.Rnw and that in stored in /inst/doc. optimbase.Rnw contains multiple \input{} statements that refer to .tex files stored in /inst/latex.ref/, e.g.: \input{../latex.ref/optimbase-package.tex} When I compile my Rnw

Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to change the value of the "record" option in a graphics device that is already open (and accepts this option). I don''t want to open a new device with, for example "dev.new(record=T)", but just want to change the settings of the current device. This can be done by pointing and clicking on the "history" tab of a

Dear all, Our pharmacometrics group is looking for bright and motivated candidates to join our modelling team within the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Cape Town. Our group has established PK/PD modelling expertise in the disease areas of tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria. It is active internationally and enjoys on-going collaborations and exchange programs with some of the

Hi all, Mango have released their updated training schedule which includes new courses and new locations. Hadley Wickham will also be coming to London to teach Data Visualisation in R. Please see details below: Public Courses Our public courses include introductory to advanced training in general data analysis through to industry specific data analysis. Attendees of our public courses receive

Dear R-users, I have got the following problem. I need to create 4x2 arrays of xyplot's on several pages. The plots are created within a loop and plotted using the print function. It seems that I cannot find the proper grid syntax with my viewports, and the more/newpage arguments. The following script is a simplification but hopefully will suffice to illustrate my problem. Any suggestion

Dear R-users, I am trying to understand what the different padding arguments in trellis.par.set are exactly controlling the space around lattice plots. I have used the following code as a basis for testing but it did not really help me to visualize how the value of each argument changes the margins and the plotting area. I guess a better way to visualize the effects of these padding items