Part of the reason for our success is the openness of the meetings. All are welcome to attend and participate. You are invited whether or not you have attended previously and wherever you reside. In past years, we have had attendees not only from Britain, Ireland, and other European countries, but also from the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

Registration and accommodations

There will be a small conference fee (£65 + vat = £76.38) to cover costs for coffee, tea, and luncheons. An invoice will be sent to you only when the program for the conference becomes available.

Program

Monday 28th June 0930 Analyzing linked employer–employee data with Stata Richard Upward, richard.upward@nottingham.ac.uk School of Economics, University of Nottingham 0955 Approximating the bias of the LSDV estimator for dynamic panel data models Giovanni S.F. Bruno, giovanni.bruno@unibocconi.it Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano 1020 Multiple imputation of missing data: an implementation of van Buuren's MICE, and more Patrick Royston, patrick.royston@ctu.mrc.ac.uk MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London 1045 Smooth hazard functions for survival time data Margaret May, m.t.may@bristol.ac.uk Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol 1100 Coffee/Tea 1130 A new Stata command for estimating confidence intervals for the variance component of random-effects linear models Matteo Bottai, mbottai@gwm.sc.edu Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Institute of Information Science and Technology, National Research Council, Pisa Nicola Orsini, Nicola.Orsini@imm.ki.se Institute of Information Science and Technology, National Research Council, Pisa and Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 1145 A comment on infrequency of purchase models in Stata Julian A. Fennema, j.a.fennema@hw.ac.uk Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot-Watt University 1200 Topics in time series regression modeling (Survey lecture) Christopher F. Baum, baum@bc.edu Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1300 Lunch 1400 Stata graphics, under the hood (Survey lecture) Vince Wiggins, vwiggins@stata.com StataCorp, College Station, TX 1515 Tea/Coffee 1545 Separation brings analysts and their graphs together Matthew Barnes, Matthew.Barnes@ons.gsi.gov.uk Office for National Statistics, London 1600 Circular statistics in Stata, revisited Nicholas J. Cox, n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Department of Geography, University of Durham 1625 Biplots, revisted Ulrich Kohler, kohler@wz-berlin.de WZB, Berlin 1700 Close Tuesday 29th June 0930 Tabulation of multiple responses Ben Jann, ben.jann@soz.gess.ethz.ch Soziologie, ETH Zürich 0955 Controlling for time-dependent confounding using marginal structural models Zoe Fewell, Zoe.Fewell@bristol.ac.uk Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol M. A. Hernán Harvard School of Public Health F. Wolfe National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, USA K. Tilling Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol H. Choi Harvard Medical School J. A. C. Sterne Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol 1015 Meta-analysis in Stata: history, progress and prospects Jonathan Sterne, Jonathan.Sterne@bristol.ac.uk Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol 1115 Coffee/Tea 1145 Compliance-adjusted intervention effects in survival data Lois G. Kim, lois.kim@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Ian R. White MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge 1200 From datasets to resultssets in Stata (Survey lecture) Roger Newson, roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College, London 1300 Lunch 1400 Applying the Cox proportional hazards regression model to competing risks Abdel G. A. Babiker, abdel.babiker@ctu.mrc.ac.uk MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London Mohamed M. Ali, alim@who.int RHR/WHO, Geneva 1425 Genome-wide linkage scans and basic bioinformatics implemented using Stata/SE Toby Andrew, toby.andrew@kcl.ac.uk Twin and Genetic Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital 1450 Evaluation of diagnostic tests for diseases in pregnancy: some statistical issues Paul T. Seed, paul.seed@kcl.ac.uk Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, GKT School of Medicine, King's College, London 1515 Tea/coffee 1545 Report to users and Wishes and grumbles William W. Gould, wgould@stata.com StataCorp, College Station, TX 1715 Close

An optional, informal meal will be held at a London restaurant on Monday evening. There is an extra cost for attending the dinner.

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