2007 North American Stata Users Group meeting

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Dates: August 13–14, 2007 Organizers: Kit Baum, baum@bc.edu Marcello Pagano, pagano@hsph.harvard.edu Venue: Longwood Galleria Conference Center 342 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115-5745 Cost: TBA

Announcement and call for presentations

The fifth North American Stata Users Group meeting will be held on August 13–14, 2007, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Longwood Galleria Conference Center.

The first day of the meeting, which will showcase user presentations, is being organized by a committee chaired by Kit Baum. The second day is being organized by StataCorp and will include several presentations, some by researchers and others by StataCorp staff. Details about accommodations and fees are available below.

Previous Stata Users Group meetings have been held in Boston (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), Australia, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands. Anyone interested in Stata, regardless of level of expertise or geographic location, is invited to attend. The meeting will include the ever-popular “Wishes and Grumbles” session where users make comments and suggestions to StataCorp.

For information about registration, see the registration form. If you have questions, contact the organizers.

Submission guidelines

Please submit an abstract of your presentation (200 words maximum, ASCII text, no math symbols) via the linked web submission form. Please indicate the presentation length you prefer (10 or 20–25 minutes) when you submit your abstract. Conference fees will be waived for presenters.

Please provide, in electronic form, any materials related to your presentation (slides and programs/datasets, where applicable) to the organizing committee before the meeting so that they can be posted on StataCorp’s website and in the Stata Users Group RePEc archive.

To view proceedings from previous Stata Users Group meetings, see http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.

Please contact the organizers with questions or to discuss ideas for presentations.

Accommodations and registration

The North American Users Group meeting will be held on August 13–14, 2007, at Longwood Galleria Conference Center 342 Longwood Ave. Boston, MA 02115-5745 To reserve a room, call Best Western Inn at Longwood direct and ask for in-house reservations. Please refer to StataCorp Sixth North American Stata Users Group meeting. Hotel details: Best Western Boston Inn at Longwood 342 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115-5745 Main phone number: 617-731-4700 or 800-468-2378 Fax number: 617-731-4870 Check in time: 3 PM Check out time: Noon Parking: $16.00 per day until noon on day of departure Smoke free hotel www.innatlongwood.com Special needs: If you have any special needs (vegetarian, handicapped, etc.), please contact Chris Farrar, cfarrar@stata.com, or Gretchen Farrar, gfarrar@stata.com.

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Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions.

The North American Stata Users Group Meeting Organizing Committee

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