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Phoenix

Getting Started Guide

objects in a project or workflow. The Diagram tab also shows the flow of

the operational procedures.

» Documents folder - contains Microsoft Word documents and templates,

images, and other binary objects that do not belong in one of the other fold-

ers.

» Global Contexts and Context Associations - Global Contexts are column

mappings that users can configure for use throughout Phoenix. Context

associations allow a user to define mappings at an operational object level.

» Grid tab - the tab in Phoenix used to display all worksheets.

» Lattice - a way to sort and display a group of plots on one panel instead of

displaying them on multiple panels. Lattice plots are sometimes referred to

as trellis plots. The maximum number of columns or rows in a latticed plot

is 15 per page.

» Mapping - a method of assigning study variables and output parameters to

inputs, or context associations, in an operational object. For example, the

nominal sample time and plasma concentration columns in a data set can be

mapped to the Time and Concentration inputs in a noncompartmental anal-

ysis object.

– When mapping values to context associations in an operational object,

users must assign the appropriate data types, or variables or parameters,

to the relevant context associations, or inputs. For example, time values

in a study can be mapped to the time context association in an

operational object.

» MDI - Multiple Document Interface. Allows users to open operational

objects and worksheets in their own windows separate from the Phoenix

main interface.

» Object level view - at the object level view, only the setup options and out-

put results relating to a particular operational object are seen by the user.

» Operational Objects - objects that are used to perform a specific proce-

dure such as noncompartmental analysis, descriptive statistics, data plot-

ting, and worksheet operations such as worksheet merges.

» Phoenix Modeling Language (PML) - model coding language in Phoenix

that uses S-PLUS and C++ syntax and is comparable to NONMEM. PML

replaces the WinNonlin ASCII model language.

» Plug-ins - system functions that are made available to a user depending on

the license type purchased, such as a Connect, WinNonlin, or an NLME