Proceedings of the 3rd UK User Group meeting

The 3rd UK user group meeting took place in the Royal Statistical Society in London on the 5th and 6th of June.

This site has been created to document the proceedings both for those who attended and those who did not.

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.