1st Dublin Meeting: Program announcement

The 1st Dublin Stata users meeting will be held in Trinity College Dublin on the 22nd May 2003.

The scientific organisers of the meeting are Ronan Conroy and Alan Kelly with some logistical help from Timberlake Consultants, the distributors of Stata in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal (http://www.timberlake.co.uk).

The meeting is open to all interested — either existing users of Stata or those considering moving from an alternative statistical package. We are promised attendance by senior management at StataCorp. We hope to arrange an informal get together in a restaurant in the evening for those who are interested.

As this is the first opportunity for Stata users in Ireland to meet locally to discuss and share their experience, we do hope that you will be willing to come along and share your experience.

The Hamilton Building is located to the rear of Trinity College; see http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/tcd_east.html. Entrance from either Lincoln Gate or through postern gate opposite Pearse DARTS tation. The Maxwell Theatre is on the 1st floor of the Hamilton Building. Please note that no parking is available on TCD grounds.

The fee is 30 Euros + VAT = 35.25 Euros. The cost includes a light lunch and tea/coffee. For further information on registration, please email info@timberlake.co.uk.

Alan Kelly (Tel: 01-6081387/2177; email: akelly@tcd.ie) and Ronan Conroy (Tel: 01-402 2431; email: rconroy@rcsi.ie)

Program — Thursday, 22nd May 2003 Morning session 09:30 Registration 09:50 Welcome Alan Kelly Ronan Conroy 10:00 Checking for support in propensity score matching Arnaud Chevalier University College Dublin 10:20 Graphics (and numerics) for comparison Nick Cox University of Durham 10:40 Testing effects of multiple genes in Stata: tests of stratification and of cumulative effects of multiple genes Cliona Molony Tony Fitzgerald Denis Shields (presenting author) Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 11:00 Coffee 11:20 Text analysis using Stata: the wordscoring approach to content analysis using words as data Kenneth Benoit Political Science, TCD 11:40 Handling panel data Brendan Halpin Department of Sociology, University of Limerick 12:00 Use of Stata for analysing outcomes in solid organ transplantation Patrick Kelly Beaumont Hospital 12:20 A sting in the tail(s) — detecting and dealing with censored data Ronan Conroy Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 12:40 Capture–recapture models — issues in selecting a 'best' model Alan Kelly Trinity College Dublin Afternoon session 14:00 Generalised linear models for prediction: some principles, some programs, and some practice Nicholas J. Cox University of Durham 14:45 From the Stata Technical Bulletin to the Stata Journal Joe Newton Texas A&M University Nicholas J. Cox University of Durham 15:00 On dynamically linked libraries (DLL's) in Stata Roberto G. Gutierrez Chinh Nguyen StataCorp 16:00 Report to Users William Gould StataCorp 16:40 Discussion: Wishes and grumbles 19:30 Conference meal (optional) Close of meeting 19:30 Evening meal (optional)