Meetings: 2011 Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Group meeting

The first Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Group meeting was a big success when it was held in Adelaide in 2004. The second such meeting was held in Melbourne in September 2006, and the third held in Sydney in 2009. This year, the fourth Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Group meeting will be held in Fremantle, Western Australia. Stata users from all disciplines and at all levels are invited to attend.

The aim is to bring together a wide range of users to discuss statistical analysis, data management, and graphics using Stata. Speakers are encouraged to present their experiences with the package, whether using standard commands, writing new programs, or exploiting the graphics facilities.

The meeting involves structured thematic sessions on novel usage of Stata for analysis of biostatistics, econometric data, psychological data, etc. Stata developers from the USA will host a “Wishes and grumbles” session, in which users may express their likes and dislikes of Stata directly to the people who make the software.

Attending from StataCorp will be Bill Rising, Director of Educational Services, and Jeffrey Pitblado, Associate Director–Statistical Software. Jeffrey Pitblado will also present a workshop on September 18, the day after the meeting.

Presentations

Selected talks

Analysis of family case–control studies in Stata

David Muller

Cancer Epidemiology Centre — The Cancer Council of Victoria

Using Non-Stata Programs within Stata

Karl Keesman

Survey Design and Analysis

Combining multiple records: When a patient has a statistical discharge

Deidra Young

WA Centre for Mental Health Policy Research

Graphics tricks for models

Bill Rising

StataCorp

Stata data management in survey tracking studies

Joanna Dipnall

CogNETive Pty Ltd

Comparison of the C-statistic with new model discriminators in the prediction of long versus short hospital stay

Richard J. Woodman

Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University

Campbell H. Thompson

Discipline of Medicine, Adelaide University

Susan W. Kim

Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University

Paul Hakendorf

Redesigning Care, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide

Presenters need to email their presentation (slides) to keesman@tpg.com.au no later than Monday, September 12, 2011.

Workshop: Survey data analysis with Stata

September 18, 9:00–5:00

Jeff Pitblado

Associate Director, Statistical Software, StataCorp

In this workshop, I cover how to use Stata for survey data analysis, assuming a fixed population. Knowledge of Stata is not required, but attendees are assumed to have some statistical knowledge, such as that typically gained in an introductory statistics course. We will begin by reviewing the sampling methods used to collect survey data and how they affect the estimation of totals, ratios, and regression coefficients. We will then cover the three variance estimators implemented in Stata’s survey estimation commands. Strata with a single sampling unit, certainty sampling units, subpopulation estimation, and poststratification will also be covered in some detail. Each topic will be illustrated with an example in a Stata session.

Please note: You will need to bring your laptop to this workshop if you wish to use Stata during the workshop. If you do not have Stata on your laptop, it will be available to load on the day of the workshop.

Additional information/slides:
ausnz11_pitblado.pdf

Registration

There will be an optional meal for an additional cost after the Users Group meeting on Saturday, September 17.

Organizers

Kieran McCaul
WA Centre for Health and Ageing
University of Western Australia
Kieran.McCaul@uwa.edu.au

Max Bulsara
Health Sciences
The University of Notre Dame–Fremantle
Max.Bulsara@nd.edu.au

If you would like to be on the committee, please contact the logistics organizers.

The logistics are being organized by Survey Design and Analysis Services Pty Ltd (http://www.survey-design.com.au), the distributor of Stata in Australia and New Zealand.

Survey Design and Analysis Services Pty Ltd
Karl and Helen Keesman
PO Box 1206
Blackburn North, VIC 3130
Australia

2011 Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Group meeting

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