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Program 5 June 1997 0930–1000 Registration and welcome 1000–1115 Smoothing in Stata Peter Sasieni, pete@wombat.lif.icnet.uk Imperial Cancer Research Fund Improving on the linear model: fractional polynomials, splines, and GAMS Gareth Ambler, gambler@rpms.ac.uk and Patrick Royston, proyston@rpms.ac.uk Royston Royal Postgraduate Medical School 1115–1130 Coffee 1130–1245 Comparing several methods of measuring the same quantity: Bland–Altman plots and beyond Paul Seed, pseed@umds.ac.uk United Medical and Dental Schools Adjusted attributable fractions from logistic regression Anthony Brady, tbrady@phls.co.uk Public Health Laboratory Service 1245–1400 Lunch 1400–1515 Manipulating large datasets in Stata: how do we manage? An illustration from the ONS Longitudinal Study. Michael Rosato, mickey.rosato@ons.gov.uk Seeromanie Harding, Seeromanie.Harding@ons.gov.uk E. McVey Office for National Statistics, London Circular Statistics in Stata Nicholas Cox, n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Durham University, UK 1515–1530 Tea 1530–1600 Meta analytic methods and Stata Michael Bradburn, bradburn@icrf.icnet.uk Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1600–1730 Wishes and Grumbles: discussion session 1930– Dinner (optional) 6 June 1997 0930–1100 Report to users William Gould, wgould@stata.com StataCorp 1100–1115 Coffee 1115–1245 Panel data estimators James Hardin StataCorp 1245–1400 Lunch 1400–1530 Maximum-likelihood estimation in Stata William Gould, wgould@stata.com StataCorp 1530– Tea and close.