9th UK meeting programme announced

The 9th Stata users meeting to be held in London will be held at the Royal Statistical Society on Monday and Tuesday, 19th and 20th May 2003.

The content of the meeting has been organised by Sophia Rabe–Hesketh, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (spaksrh@iop.kcl.ac.uk) and Stephen Jenkins, University of Essex (stephenj@essex.ac.uk). The logistics are being organised by Timberlake Consultants (http://www.timberlake.co.uk), the distributors of Stata in the UK, Ireland, 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 (at additional cost).

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.

Programme Monday, 19 May 2003 0930–1000 Registration and coffee/tea 1000–1005 Introduction and welcome 1005–1040 Graphics (and numerics) for comparison Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, UK 1040–1115 Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing Mark Schaffer (presenter) Heriot–Watt University Kit Baum Boston College Steven Stillman New Zealand Department of Labour 1115–1145 Coffee/Tea 1145–1210 General score tests for regression models incorporating `robust' variance estimates David Clayton Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge University Joanna Howson Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge University 1210–1235 Semi-nonparametric estimation of extended ordered probit models Mark Stewart University of Warwick 1235–1300 Diagnostics for generalised linear mixed models Sophia Rabe–Hesketh Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London Anders Skrondal Norwegian Institute of Public Health 1300–1400 Lunch 1400–1430 Prognosis of survival for breast cancer patients using Stata Ken Ryder Breast Cancer Institute, Guy's Hospital Patrick Royston Medical Research Council 1430–1500 FIML estimation of an endogenous switching model for count data Alfonso Miranda Caso Luengo University of Warwick 1500–1530 Multiple imputations for missing data in lifecourse studies Bianca de Stavola LSHTM 1530–1600 Coffee/tea 1600–1715 On dynamically linked libraries (DLL's) in Stata Roberto G. Gutierrez StataCorp Chinh Nguyen StataCorp 1715 Close Tuesday, 20 May 2003 0930–1000 Building a user-friendly front end to a survey using Stata John Haisken-de New RWI Essen, DIW Berlin, IZA Bonn 1000–1025 Multivariate probit regression using simulated maximum likelihood Lorenzo Cappellari Università del Piemonte Orientale and University of Essex Stephen Jenkins University of Essex 1025–1050 Using Stata's -ml method d2- to estimate a multistate Markov transition model Thomas Büettner London School of Economics 1050–1115 Calculation of average marginal effects using -margin- Tamás Bartus Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration 1115–1145 Coffee/tea 1145–1210 Using the Longitudinal Study database with Stata Andy Sloggett LSHTM 1210–1235 Bootstrap CI and test statistics for kernel density estimates using Stata Carlo Fiorio London School of Economics and STICERD 1235–1300 Adaptive kernel density estimation Philippe Van Kerm CEPS/INSTEAD, Differdange, G.-D. Luxembourg 1300–1400 Lunch 1400–1430 Muliple test procedures and smile plots Roger Newson King's College London 1430–1530 Report to users Bill Gould StataCorp 1530–1600 Coffee/tea 1600–1715 Discussion: Wishes and grumbles General discussion 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