2007 UK Stata Users Group meeting
Program announcement
The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata user meetings.
The meeting is open to all interested. In past years participants were from
Britain, Ireland, other European countries, the United States, and
Australia. StataCorp will be represented.
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| Dates: |
Monday, September 10, and Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| Venue: |
Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
(just off Finsbury Square in the City of London)
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| Cost: |
£75.00 for both days;
£50 for one day
(There are reduced rates for paper presenters; see below)
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Program
Monday, September 10, 2007
| 08:45–09:25 |
Registration and coffee/tea |
| 09:25–09:30 |
Introduction and welcome
Tim Collier
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Stephen Jenkins
ISER, University of Essex
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| 09:30–10:00 |
Roger Newson
National Heart and Lungs Institute, Imperial College
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| 10:00–10:20 |
Adrian Mander
MRC Human Nutrition Research
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| 10:20–10:40 |
Tom Palmer
Department of Health Sciences, Leicester University
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| 10:40–11:00 |
Neil Shephard
University of Sheffield
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| 11:00–11:30 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30–11:50 |
Maarten Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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| 11:50–12:10 |
Alfonso Miranda
Department of Economics, Keele University
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| 12:10–12:30 |
Ian White
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
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| 12:30–12:50 |
Tommaso Nannicini
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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| 12:50–14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00–14:20 |
Shuk-Li Man and Hannah Evans
Center for Sexual Health and HIV Research,
University College London
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| 14:20–14:40 |
Carlo Fiorio
Department of Economic Scieces,
Universita degli Studi di Milano
Stephen P. Jenkins
Institute for Social and Economic Research,
University of Essex
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| 14:40–15:00 |
Ben Jann
ETH Zürich
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| 15:00–15:45 |
Bill Rising
StataCorp
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| 15:45–16:15 |
Coffee/Tea
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| 16:15–17:15 |
Austin Nichols
Urban Institute
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| 17:15 |
End of formal sessions. Optional adjournment to pub, followed by dinner
at restaurant (at participant’s own cost)
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
| 09:30–10:00 |
Nick Cox
Department of Geography, Durham University
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| 10:00–11:00 |
Philippe Van Kerm
CEPS/INSTEAD, G.-D. Luxembourg
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| 11:00–11:30 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11:30–13:00 |
Vince Wiggins
StataCorp
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| 13:00–14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00–15:00 |
Kit Baum
Boston College
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| 15:00–15:30 |
Tea/Coffee |
| 15:30–16:00 |
Patrick Royston
MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
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| 16:00–17:15 |
Report to users and “Wishes and grumbles”
Bill Gould
StataCorp
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| 17:15 |
End of meeting |
Accommodations and registration
Timberlake Consultants generously sponsors registration fee waivers for
presentations (one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of number of
authors involved). They will also pay a small fee to a presenter of a longer
review or tutorial paper.
To register, visit
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/Request_forms/stataug_form.html.
By British standards, London is usually relatively dry and warm in September.
Accommodation information will be announced later.
For records of most of the Stata User Group meetings so far, both in London
and elsewhere, visit
http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.
Organizers
Scientific organizers:
Logistics organizer:
Timberlake Consultants, distributors of Stata in the United Kingdom, Brazil,
Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.
Visit the Timberlake web site at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/index.html.
On behalf of all participants, the scientific organizers express
their thanks to Timberlake Consultants for their support in organizing the
meeting, and for their generous sponsorship.
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