Samer Mouksassi

Pharmacist, Pharmacometrician,
Drug Development, Biostatistician, Data Scientist, Visualizations,
R packages developer, Global Health
Assistant Professor

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

COVID-19: Cases Dashboard https://t.co/A22s5MjJDj

[Yu-Wei Lin @YuWeiLin10]

Excited to launch the @ASCPT Oncology Community monthly blog series. I have the privilege of leading this initiative!

This month: getting the dose right in modern oncology.
Next month: pharmacometrics in oncology.

More expert insights coming soon.
Interested in contributing?

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@henrythe9ths Fundraise

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@TheDamiForeign Lenovo yoga slim

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@earthcurated @CrispeThe

[Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85]

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major hashtag #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release here: https://t.co/lhYFiLT3zN

[NonsparseOncologist @5_utr]

Really excellent work here! Random forest and XGBoost are overused, overhyped, and likely lead to worse decision making than if not used. That these are to facilitate “precision medicine” is a misunderstanding of the techniques and curse of dimensionality @RWJE_BA @f2harrell

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@f2harrell Yes using a function is much more readable, data.table has some built in optimized fast functions but in this case base R is sufficient thanks for sharing!

[Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85]

I'm pleased to announce the release of scales 1.4.0 for #rstats. While scales mainly exists to serve #ggplot2, this release packs a bunch of improvements that is good to be aware of.

Read more at https://t.co/QQ0Z1o79FH

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@Gebran_Bassil Not attending the funeral of those who protected you to be shadow president, while you covered up all their crimes towards the Lebanese people, won't erase who you are...

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@LaRevolte_LEB We have to look forward not backward and live in peace

[Frank Harrell @f2harrell]

@trumanfrancis I’m seeing less and less appropriateness of time-to-event analysis as patient outcomes are more complex and rich than that (including up and down responses over time), so I’m using Markov state transition models more. But for causality I refer to experts in g-estimation.

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@Gebran_Bassil In a real democracy one deputy become independent when he is out of a party. Also elections are redone at any moment should no clear majority can form a government. You teach people how to run a country without a government and how to be undemocratic. Wake up people

[Samer Mouksassi @POPPKPD]

@GermanosPeter @DrSamirGeagea Mr @GermanosPeter , in a true democracy politics has nothing to do with religion and when a government lose majority we redo election.

[Frank Harrell @f2harrell]

I've updated my template for @quarto_pub statistical reports using R: https://t.co/5dtiuclD0F #rstats #Statistics . Thanks to @vandy_biostat Max Rohde for starting this template and introducing me to Quarto

[Catriona Waitt @CatrionaWaitt]

@MHRAgovuk @fwojara @SeniorCymo @DrKarleenG @milkymedics @BritJClinPharm @BritPharmSoc @cwhalleypub @Pharmaforkids @MHRAmedicines Also delightful to see Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modelling getting a specific mention by Dame June Raines in her powerful call to action. @ShakirAtoyebi @aeolagunju @Jo_ClinPharmcst @BritJClinPharm #AtTheEquatorUG @ProjectMADAM

[mattfidler @mattfidler]

We have a new nlmixr2 blog entry courtesy of Hitesh Mistry (@HilsethMistrov) and Nicola Melillo (@NicolaMelil) detailing how to upscale nlmixr2 using AWS. This is helpful for long running SAEM models. In the future it may be even more interesting with other methods parallelized.

[Catriona Waitt @CatrionaWaitt]

#DigitalHealthAfrica2024 Clarence Mbanga from DAC-A provides shocking statistics on the number of clinical trials which are ineffective and may represent missed opportunity. The DAC-A review process provides a structured constructive review to enhance quality

[Catriona Waitt @CatrionaWaitt]

#DigitalHealthAfrica2024 @POPPKPD gives a clear overview of how PK modelling has developed since 1977 to now be able to inform precise dosing for clinically complex individuals. Further development of #AI alongside these approaches should help streamline clinical decision making

[Catriona Waitt @CatrionaWaitt]

The sun is setting over Lake Victoria. It's nearly time for #DigitalHealthAfrica2024! As final preparations are underway, there is still time to register: https://t.co/CLRZN6nBD5
Check out the programme: https://t.co/xCDSlr93dK
#AtTheEquatorUG