Combined Dutch & German meeting: Program announcement

This meeting will actually be a Dutch/German/Belgian meeting. The academic content has been organized by Wim van Putten (putten@stah.azr.nl) and Alexander Volovics (awol@home.nl). The backers of the meeting are Smit Consult, http://www.smitconsult.nl and DPC, http://www.dpc.de, the distributors of Stata in the Netherlands and Germany respectively. We are expecting participants and speakers from Holland, Belgium, and Germany. But everybody, from anywhere, interested in using Stata is welcome to attend.

Participation at this meeting, coffee and tea included, is free of charge. Lunch, however, is not free of charge. We do urge you to enroll as quickly as possible so that we have some idea of the number of people coming.

You can enroll by contacting Nina Brands (nina@smitconsult.nl) by email or by writing, phoning, or faxing to

Smit Consult
Postbus 220
5150 AE Drunen
Netherlands

Tel: (31)(0) 416 378 125
Fax: (31)(0) 416 378 385

German users interested in attending can also contact Dirk Engels (dirk.engels@dpc.de).

Program Thursday, 23 May 2002 10:15–10:30 Reception 10:30–10:35 Introduction and welcome 10:35–11:15 The use of fractional polynomials to model interactions between treatment and continuous covariates in clinical trials Patrick Royston MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London 11:15–11:45 Graphics before and after model fitting Nick Cox Department of Geography, Durham University, UK 11:45–12:00 Transferring data with outdat.ado Ulrich Kohler Dept. of Social Sciences, Mannheim University 12:00–12:15 Coffee 12:15–12:55 Multilevel selection models using GLLAMM Sophia Rabe–Hesketh Inst. of Psychiatry, Kings College, London 12:55–13:10 Query your data with QD Ron van der Holt Dept. of Statistics, AZR, Rotterdam 13:10–14:05 Lunch 14:05–14:20 How to keep track of your ado-files Wilfried Graveland Dept. of Statistics, AZR, Rotterdam 14:20–14:45 Goodness of fit for quantal response models Jeroen Weesie Dept. of Sociology, Utrecht University 14:45–15:15 Classification and regression tree analysis (CART) with Stata Wim van Putten Dept. of Statistics, AZR, Rotterdam 15:15–15:30 Tea 15:30–16:10 Programmable GLM: a collection of case studies Roberto Gutierrez StataCorp, College Station, TX 16:10–16:35 Tools for income mobility analysis in Stata Philippe van Kerm CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxemburg 16:35–17:05 The usefulness of Stata in the analysis of complex veterinary surveys Niko Speybroeck Dept. of Animal Health, ITG, Antwerpen 17:05–17:15 Tea 17:15–17:55 Report to users William Gould StataCorp, College Station, TX 17:55–18:05 Discussion: Wishes and grumbles 18:05 Tea

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