1st Australian and New Zealand meeting

Rotunda on the Torrens River Photo used with permission of the Adelaide City Council www.adelaidecitycouncil.com

Date: Sunday, October 10, 2004   Venue: Holiday Inn 65 Hindley Street Adelaide, South Australia   Program: See below.   Cost: $A 150 (includes GST)   Register online (SAPMEA)

The first Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Group meeting will be held on October 10, 2004 in Adelaide, South Australia, at the Holiday Inn on Hindley.

The inaugural meeting of Stata users in Australia is being held in conjunction with the 2004 annual meeting of the Australian Epidemiological Association (www.sapmea.asn.au/aea2004). However, the Stata Users Group meeting is not directed solely at epidemiologists and biostatisticians; Stata users from all disciplines are invited to attend. Beginners, experts, and anyone in between are welcome.

This meeting will follow a format similar to that of a number of Stata Users Group meetings held in Europe and the United States. The aim is to bring together a wide range of users to discuss statistical analysis, data management, and graphics using Stata. Speakers are encouraged to present their experiences with the package, whether using standard commands, writing new programs, or exploiting the new graphics facilities.

Provisional program (Click on the title to view the abstract and additional information.) Session 1: General 09:10 Programming for further processing of postestimation results Ian Watson, i.watson@econ.usyd.edu.au Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training, University of Sydney 09:30 Austrlia's firm-level productivity — a new perspective Robert Breunig, robert.breunig@anu.edu.au Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Marn–Heong Wong, wmhoz@yahoo.com.sg Australia–Japan Research Centre, Australian National University 09:50 Simulating two- and three-generation pedigree data for genetic epidemiology research Jisheng S. Cui, jisheng.cui@csiro.au Department of Public Health, University of Melbourne, and Mathematical and Information Sciences Division, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Clayton, Victoria 10:10 Modeling intensive care unit outcome in a large data base: analysis of the institutional effect John Moran, john.moran@nwahs.sa.gov.au ANZICS Adult Data Base Committee, Carlton Victoria P. Bristow, N. Bishop, and C. George School of Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide 10:30 Generalized partially linear models Roberto Gutierrez, rgutierrez@stata.com StataCorp 11:00 Morning tea Session 2: Focus on missingness 11:30 The effect of missing data on covariates in survival analysis Irit Aitkin Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne 11:50 Tools for using multiple imputation for missing data in Stata John Carlin, jbcarlin@unimelb.edu.au Philip Greenwood, John Galati, Joe Schafer Departments of Paediatrics and Public Health, University of Melbourne, and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne 12:05 Analyzing multiply imputed datasets: separate or stacked Philip Greenwood, philip.greenwood@mcri.edu.au Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne 12:25 Using plugins and COM servers in Stata for handling multiple datasets John Galati, john.galati@mcri.edu.au Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne 12:45 Lunch Session 3: Briefly, From the Floor... 13:45 Open discussion on tips and techniques Session 4: Mainly Epidemiology... 14:00 Propensity score matching using -psmatch- Adrian Esterman, adrian.esterman@flinders.edu.au Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Flinders University, Adelaide 14:40 Simulating a control pool to economize control recruitment in a matched case–control study Rory Wolfe, rory.wolfe@med.monash.edu.au Monash University, Melbourne 15:00 Risk ratio estimation with the logistic model Leigh Blizzard, leigh.blizzard@utas.edu.au Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania David W. Hosmer School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts 15:15 Afternoon tea Session 5: StataCorp and Stata Users 15:45 Report to users William Gould StataCorp 16:30 Wishes and grumbles 17:15 Close TBA Optional dinner (time/venue TBA)

Registration and accommodations The cost to attend is $A150 (includes GST). This fee covers lunch and refreshments. An optional dinner, at extra cost, will be held on Sunday evening at a restaurant to be named at a later date. The meeting is being organized by South Australian Postgraduate Medical Education Association Inc. (SAPMEA) Conventions (www.sapmea.asn.au) in collaboration with the organizing committee and the Australian distributor of Stata, Survey Design and Analysis Services (survey-design.com.au). The meeting will be held at Holiday Inn 65 Hindley Street Adelaide, South Australia Please contact SAPMEA's website (www.sapmea.asn.au/conventions/stata04) for details on registration and for help with accommodation.

St. Peters Cathedral Photo used with permission of the Adelaide City Council www.adelaidecitycouncil.com

The organizers thank Survey Design and Analysis Services for financial support.