Proceedings of the 5th UK user group meeting
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The 5th Stata UK User Group Meeting
The Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
17-18 May, 1999
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12 Errol Street
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Synopsis
The 5th UK user group meeting took place at the
Royal Statistical Society in
London on 17-18 May 1999. Organisation was by Ana Timberlake
of Timberlake Consultants (the logistics) and by Stephen Jenkins and Peter
Sasieni (the scientific programme).
About 50 people attended each day, including representatives from a range of
disciplines, including bio-medical statistics, economics, and geography. We
were very pleased to welcome Bill Gould and Alan Riley from StataCorp.
Over the 2 days there were 9 presentations by Stata users plus major
presentations from Bill Gould and Alan Riley. Topics covered included
programs for graphics, data summary, estimation of multivariate models, and
Stata programming per se. The Statacorp sessions included a report to users
with some glimpses of future developments (including a lively question and
answer session), programming in Stata 6, collaboration taking advantage of
Stata’s new net commands, and the upgrades to the survival analysis
(st) program suite.
The more hardened Stata addicts continued discussions at a local pub and
later at an Indian restaurant.
Abstracts of the papers are posted below or at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/.
Speakers’ names and email addresses are included, and anyone interested in
obtaining a copy of a program mentioned is invited to contact the relevant
speaker.
Stephen P. Jenkins,
stephenj@essex.ac.uk
Peter Sasieni,
p.sasieni@ircf.icnet.uk
Agenda
Speakers
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Monday, 17 May
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| 09:30 | Registration and Coffee/Tea |
| 10:00 | Introduction and welcome, Peter Sasieni
& Stephen Jenkins |
| 10:05 | L-moments for data
summary and distribution fitting, Nick Cox & Patrick Royston |
| 10:40 | Generalised linear latent
and mixed models, Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Andrew Pickles & Colin
Taylor |
| 11:15 | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.35 | Minimum distance
estimation of covariance structures, Lorenzo Cappellari |
| 12:10 | Hot deck imputation,
Adrian Mander and David Clayton |
| 12:35 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Examples of dialog box
programming in Stata: data entry and telephone randomization, Tony
Brady |
| 14:15 | Regression analysis
with episode length as outcome, when only incomplete episode durations are
available, Mohamed Ali, Tom Marshall, & Abdel Babiker |
| 14.50 | Report to users and glimpses to the future,
including question and answer session for user grumbles, comments, and
suggestions for Stata version 7, Bill Gould and Alan Riley |
| 15:25 | Tea/coffee |
| 15:55 | continued, Bill Gould and Alan Riley |
| 17:15 | End of formal sessions; informal session begins in
pub nearby |
Speakers
Peter Sasieni
ICRF
Stephen Jenkins
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change
University of Essex
Nick Cox
Durham University, UK
Patrick Royston
Imperial College
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
Institute of Psychiatry
Andrew Pickles
University of Manchester
Colin Taylor
Addiction Research Unit
Lorenzo Cappellari
University of Warwick
Adrian Mander
MRC Biostatistics Unit
University Forvie Site
David Clayton
Cambridge University
Tony Brady
Imperial College
Mohamed Ali
LSHTM
Tom Marshall
LSHTM
Abdel Babiker
MRC HIV Clinical Trials Centre
Alan Riley
StataCorp
Bill Gould
StataCorp
Philippe Van Kerm
FUNDP, Namur
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