2003 North American Stata Users Group meeting

Monday, March 17, 2003 North American Users Group meeting Program Tuesday, March 18, 2003 Measurement error in nonlinear models course 8:30 – 9:30, registration (coffee and doughnuts provided) 9:30 – 4:30, with 1 hour break for lunch, plus coffee breaks lunch and refreshments will be provided for participants Longwood Galleria Conference Center 342 Longwood Avenue Boston, Massachusetts   Professional Student North American Stata Users Group meeting and Measurement error in nonlinear models course $85 $55 Measurement error in nonlinear models course only $45 $45 North American Stata Users Group meeting only $45 $20

The second North American Stata Users Group meeting will be held March 17, 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts at the Longwood Galleria Conference Center. It will be followed by a short course, Measurement error in nonlinear models, presented by Raymond Carroll and James Hardin.

The content of the meeting has been organized by a committee co-chaired by Kit Baum, Boston College (baum.bc.edu) and Marcello Pagano, Harvard School of Public Health (pagano@hsph.harvard.edu). The logistics are being organized by StataCorp.

Previous Stata Users Group meetings have been held in Boston (2001), Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands. All meetings are open to anyone interested, without regard for level of expertise or geographic location. StataCorp will be represented. There will be the usual "wishes and grumbles" session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.

Program Monday, March 17 – User Group meeting 0730–0830 Registration (coffee and doughnuts provided) 0830–0945 Session 1 Generalized latent class modeling using gllamm Sophia Rabe–Hesketh Institute of Psychiatry, King's College Andrew Pickles University of Manchester Anders Skrondal Norwegian Institute of Public Health Case–control study power and sample size calculations using Stata Katie Saunders Cancer Research UK, Genetic Epidemiology Division, University of Leeds Tim Bishop Cancer Research UK, Genetic Epidemiology Division, University of Leeds Jenny Barrett Cancer Research UK, Genetic Epidemiology Division, University of Leeds The effects of self-perception on students' mathematics and science achievement in 36 countries Ce Shen Academic Technology Services, Boston College Oleksandr Talavera Academic Technology Services, Boston College 0945–1015 Coffee/tea 1015–1200 Session 2 Generalized linear models for prediction: some principles, some programs and some practice Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, UK Using Stata to manage and create a research data bank Frederick Wolfe National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases Kaleb Michaud National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases Asymptotic confidence intervals (CIs) for a difference between two independent proportions Joseph Coveney Cobridge Co., Ltd. Extending xi Phil Ender UCLA Department of Education Michael Mitchell UCLA Academic Technology Services 1200–1330 Lunch and refreshments provided 1330–1500 Session 3 Teaching Stata for data management Phil Bardsley Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina Dan Blanchette Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina Teaching Stata through guided practice Estelle Young Bowie State University Stacy Gibbs Bowie State University Michael Wynn Bowie State University Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing Christopher F. Baum Boston College Mark E. Schaffer Heriot–Watt University Steven Stillman New Zealand Department of Labour Building a collection of programs for Stata Henrik Schmiediche Texas A&M University Multivariate data exploration with Stata: Evaluation and wish list Stephen Soldz Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis 1500–1530 Coffee/tea 1530–1730 Session 4 Stata Journal Editors' report H. Joseph Newton Texas A&M University Nicholas J. Cox University of Durham Report to Stata users: Stata 8 William W. Gould StataCorp Wishes and grumbles William W. Gould StataCorp Chinh Nguyen StataCorp 1900 Optional dinner Tuesday, March 18 – Short Course Full day course (0930–1630) with 1 hour break for lunch, plus coffee breaks Registration for those not previously registered (coffee and doughnuts provided) 0830–0930. Lunch and refreshments provided. 0930–1630 Measurement error in nonlinear models Raymond Carroll Texas A&M University James Hardin Texas A&M University

Registration and cost

The North American Users Group meeting will be held on March 17, 2003, and the Measurement error in nonlinear models course will be held the next day at

Longwood Galleria Conference Center
342 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Best Western Boston — the Inn at Longwood Medical for March 15–19, 2003. The hotel is offering a limited number of sleeping rooms at a discount rate of $149.00 plus 12.45% tax per room per night. Please call the hotel direct at 617-731-4700 or toll free at 800-468-2378 and ask for in-house reservations. Note that the last day to make reservations at the discounted rate is February 22, 2003. For more information, visit the hotel's website at http://www.bestwestern.com/prop_22028 or Best Western's website at http://www.bestwestern.com.

Proceedings from most of the prior meetings of the Stata Users Group can be accessed at http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.

Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions.