2005 German Stata Users Group meeting

Announcement and program

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Date: Friday, 8 April 2005 Venue: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) Reichpietschufer 50 D-10785 Berlin Germany Cost: 20 Euro (students: 10 Euro) Dinner (optional): 20 Euro

The 3rd German Stata Users' Group Meeting will be held at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (http://www.wz-berlin.de) on Friday, 8th April 2005.

The meeting is open to all interested, and we are happy if Stata users from neighbouring countries would join us. StataCorp will be represented. The conference language will be English due to the 'international' nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers. There will be a "wishes and grumbles" session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.

Registration and fees Participants are asked to travel on their own fees. There will be a small conference fee (regular 20 Euro, students 10 Euro) to cover costs for coffee, teas, and luncheons. There will also be an optional informal meal at a Berlin restaurant on Friday evening (at additional cost of 20 Euro). For further information on registration, please contact anke.mrosek@dpc.de. Mrs. Mrosek will also assist you in finding an accommodation.

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Program April 8th 08:45 Registration and coffee/tea 09:15 Welcome Ulrich Kohler WZB 09:30 Mulitivariable regression models with continuous covariates, with a practical emphasis on fractional polynomials and applications in clinical epidemology Patrick Royston Cancer Division, MRC Clinical Trials Unit 10:30 Coffee 10:40 Response Surface Modelling Using Stata Jeroen Weesie University of Utrecht 11:20 Standard Errors for the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Ben Jann ETH Zürich 12:00 Lunch 13:00 SOEPMENU: A menu-driven Stata/SE interface for accessing the German socio-economic panel John P. Haisken-DeNew Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI) Essen 13:40 A Survey on Survey Statistics: What is done, can be done in Stata, and what's missing Frauke Kreuter, Richard Valliant Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park 14:20 Coffee 14:35 Who do you trust while bubbles grow and blow? A comparative analysis of the explanatory power of accounting and patent information for the market values of German firms Fred Ramb Deutsche Bundesbank Markus Reitzig The Copenhagen Business School 15:15 Simple Thematic Mapping in Stata Maurizio Pisati University of Milan 15:55 Coffee 16:10 Stata implementation at Bercelcon Research: Experiences made — requirements for a Professional Services Company Andreas Stiehler Berlecon 16:50 Recent Developments in Stata David Drukker StataCorp 17:30 Coffee 17:45 Report to the Users William Gould StataCorp 18:30 Wishes and Grumbles 19:15 End of meeting

Scientific organizers

The academic program of the meeting is being organized by:

Johannes Giesecke, Humboldt University Berlin
johannes.giesecke@rz.hu-berlin.de

Ulrich Kohler, WZB
kohler@wz-berlin.de

Willi F. Sauerbrei, University of Freiburg
wfs@imbi.uni-freiburg.de

Logistics organizers

The logistics are being organized by Dittrich and Partner (http://www.dpc.de), the distributor of Stata in several countries including Germany, Austria, and Poland.