12th UK Stata Users Group meeting

Program announcement

The next UK Stata Users Group meeting will be held at City University in London on September 11–12, 2006. This central location is near the Royal Statistical Society and Thomas Bayes’ burial place.

Stata Users Group meetings started in London in 1995, and there has been a meeting every year since. These meetings have an international flavor, usually attracting several visitors from other countries, including the United States, other European countries, Australia, and New Zealand.

The 12th London meeting features a strong cast of speakers across the spectrum of the Stata community, including visitors from Australia, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, and the United States. StataCorp will be represented by David Drukker and Vince Wiggins, who will give three extended tutorials.

Potential visitors to London might like to know that, by British standards, September is usually relatively dry and warm.

Dates:	Monday and Tuesday, September 11–12, 2006
Venue:	City University Cass Business School 106 Bunhill Row
Price:	£75.00 for both days £50 for one day £30.00 for dinner (optional)
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Program

Monday, September 11
8:45–9:25	Registration and coffee/tea
9:25–9:30	Introduction and welcome
9:30–11:00	Automating the production of large reports from Stata Ross Harris Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
	Automatic generation of documents Rosa Gini and Jacopo Pasquini Regional Agency for Public Health of Tuscany
	Marginal effects and extending the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for nonlinear models Tamás Bartus Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest
11:00–11:30	Coffee/tea
11:30–12:50	A comparison analysis of dynamic panel-data estimators in the presence of endogenous regressors Giovanni S. F. Bruno Istituto di Economia Politica, Universit� Bocconi, Milan
	On the central role of Somers’ D Roger Newson National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
	Consistency checking with assertk Krishnan Bhaskaran, Hannah Green MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
12:50–2:00	Lunch
2:00–3:30	Variance estimation for quantile group shares, cumulative shares, and Gini coefficient Stephen P. Jenkins Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
	Econometric analysis of panel data using Stata David M. Drukker StataCorp, College Station, TX
3:30–4:00	Coffee/tea
4:00–5:15	Graphs for all seasons Nicholas J. Cox Durham University
	Scheming your way to consistent graphs Vincent L. Wiggins StataCorp, College Station, TX
5:15	Close
Conference dinner (optional)
Tuesday, September 12
9:30–11:00	Estimating and modeling the proportion cured of disease in population-based cancer studies Paul C. Lambert Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester
	Two postestimation commands for assessing confounding effects in medical and epidemiological studies Zhiqiang Wang Centre for Chronic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Queensland
	Problems with infinite solutions in logistic regression Ian White MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
11:00–11:30	Coffee/tea
11:30–12:45	Visualizing and analyzing time to event data: Lifting the veil of censoring Patrick Royston MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
	Modeling for response variables that are proportions Maarten L. Buis Department of Social Research Methodology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12:45–2:00	Lunch
2:00–3:30	A brief introduction to Mata David M. Drukker StataCorp, College Station, TX
	Time-series filtering techniques in Stata Kit Baum Department of Economics, Boston College
3:30–4:00	Coffee/tea
4:00–5:15	Report to users, followed by Wishes and grumbles

Registration and accommodations

The cost is £75.00 for both days or £50 for one day. There will be an optional dinner for an additional £30.00.

To enroll, visit http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/Request_forms/stataug_form.html and fill out the registration form by September 6, 2006.

For assistance in finding accommodations, or for more information, contact info@timberlake.co.uk.

Scientific organizers

The meeting’s scientific program will be organized by Nick Cox from Durham University (n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk) and Patrick Royston from the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London (patrick.royston@ctu.mrc.ac.uk).

Logistics organizers

The meeting’s logistic arrangements are organized by Timberlake Consultants, the distributors of Stata in the United Kingdom and Ireland.