8th UK meeting program announced

The 8th Stata users meeting to be held in London will be held at the Royal Statistical Society on Monday and Tuesday, 20th and 21st May 2002.

The content of the meeting has been organised by Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University (n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk) and Patrick Royston, MRC Clinical Trials Unit (Patrick.Royston@ctu.mrc.ac.uk). The logistics are being organised by Timberlake Consultants (http://www.timberlake.co.uk), the distributors of Stata in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

The meeting is open to all interested. In past years people have attended not only from Britain, Ireland, and other European countries, but also from the USA, Australia, and elsewhere. StataCorp will be represented. There will be the usual `wishes and grumbles' session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. There will also be an optional informal meal at a London restaurant on Monday evening.

The cost of the meeting is £69.50 + VAT for both days or £49.50 + VAT for one day only. This includes lunch, coffee and tea. For further information on registration, please contact info@timberlake.co.uk.

Detailed programme Monday, 20 May 2002 0930–1000 Registration and coffe/tea 1000–1005 Introduction and welcome 1005–1040 Creating plots and tables of estimation results using parmest and friends Roger Newson Department of Public Health Medicine, King's College, London 1040–1115 Simulation studies comparing different genetic methodologies using Stata Harland Austin Department of Epidemiology, Emory University 1115–1145 Coffee 1145–1220 Graphics before and after model fitting Nick Cox Department of Geography, University of Durham 1220–1255 Standardising anthropometric measures in children and adolescents with new egen functions Suzanna Vidmar Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and University of Melbourne Kylie Hesketh Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and University of Melbourne John Carlin Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and University of Melbourne 1255–1405 Lunch 1405–1440 Using Stata at the Office for National Statistics: an overview Matthew Barnes Office for National Statistics 1440–1515 A note on ownership and productivity in UK businesses Ralf Martin and Chiara Criscuolo Office for National Statistics, CeRiBA, and London School of Economics 1515–1530 The Stata Technical Bulletin and the Stata Journal: editors' report Joe Newton Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University Nick Cox Department of Geography, University of Durham 1530–1600 Tea 1600–1715 Programmable GLM: a collection of case studies Bobby Gutierrez StataCorp, College Station, TX 1715 Close Tuesday, 21 May 2002 0930–1005 BCa bootstrap confidence intervals James Carpenter Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Patrick Royston MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London 1005–1040 The use of fractional polynomials to model interactions between treatment and continuous covariates in clinical trials Patrick Royston MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London Wilhelm Sauerbrei IMBI, University Hospital of Freiburg 1040–1115 Applying the Cox proportional hazard regression model to competing risks Mohamed Ali Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Abdel Babiker MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London 1115–1145 Coffee 1145–1220 Adjusting for measurement error in explanatory variables Ian White MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Chris Frost MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Shoji Tokunaga MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge 1220–1300 Further steps towards a graphical interface for making tables and estimating effects Michael Hills 1300–1400 Lunch 1400–1435 How to face lists with fortitude (Tutorial) Nick Cox Department of Geography, University of Durham 1435–1530 Report to users Bill Gould StataCorp, College Station, TX 1530–1600 Tea 1600–1715 Discussion: Wishes and grumbles 1715 Close

The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata users meetings. Records of most of the meetings so far, both in London and elsewhere, can be accessed via http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html