Stata Conference Chicago 2011

The Stata Conference 2011 will be held at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business’s Gleacher Center. The Gleacher Center is located downtown on the bank of the Chicago River, just steps from Michigan Avenue and within walking distance of most downtown attractions.

The Stata Conference is enjoyable and rewarding for Stata users at all levels and from all disciplines. This year’s program consists of a mixture of user presentations, longer talks by invited presenters, and talks by StataCorp developers. In addition, the program includes the ever-popular “Wishes and grumbles” session in which users have an opportunity to share their comments and suggestions directly with developers from StataCorp.

Program

Thursday, July 14

8:00–8:50	Registration and continental breakfast
8:50–9:00	Welcome and introduction
9:00–10:10	Session 1: Using existing Stata commands
	Tricks with Hicks: Stata gmm code for nonlinear GMM Carl Nelson University of Illinois–Urbana–Champaign 15 minutes
	xtmixed and denominator degrees of freedom: Myth or magic Phil Ender UCLA Statistical Consulting Group 15 minutes
	Using the margins command to estimate and interpret adjusted predictions and marginal effects Richard Williams University of Notre Dame 25 minutes
	Using margins to test for group differences in growth trajectories in generalized linear mixed models Sarah Mustillo (with L.R. Landerman and K.C. Land) Purdue University, Duke University School of Medicine, and Duke University 15 minutes
10:10–10:30	Break
10:30–11:10	Session 2: Graphics, part I
	Graphics tips for all Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, United Kingdom 40 minutes
11:10–11:40	Session 3: Extending Stata/workflow
	Stata as a data-entry management tool Ryan Knight Innovations for Poverty Action 15 minutes
	Universal and mass customization of tables in Stata Roy Wada University of Illinois–Chicago 15 minutes
11:40–12:45	Lunch
12:45–1:45	Session 4: Invited speaker
	Fractional response models with endogenous explanatory variables and heterogeneity Jeffrey M. Wooldridge Michigan State University 60 minutes
1:45–2:00	Break
2:00–3:40	Session 5: Causal Modeling
	Causal inference for binary regression with observational data Austin Nichols Urban Institute 40 minutes
	Estimating the parameters of simultaneous-equations models with the sem command in Stata 12 David M. Drukker StataCorp 60 minutes
3:40–4:00	Break
4:00–5:00	Report to users
6:30	Optional dinner at Osteria Via Stato

Friday, July 15

8:00–8:30	Day 2 registration and continental breakfast
8:30–9:40	Session 1: Focus on biostatistics
	Calculating bronchiolitis severity using ordinal regression with a new function in Stata Carl Mitchell (with Paul Walsh) Kern County Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine/UCLA 15 minutes
	Teaching statistics with Stata in emergency medicine (EM) journal club Muhammad Waseem Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center 15 minutes
	Use of cure fraction models for the survival analysis of uterine cancer patients Noori Akhtar-Danesh (with Alice Lytwyn and Laurie Elit) McMaster University 25 minutes
	Using Mata to import Illumina SNP chip data for genome-wide association studies Chuck Huber (with Michael Hallman, Victoria Friedel, Melissa Richard, and Huandong Sun) Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health and University of Texas School of Public Health 15 minutes
9:40–10:00	Break
10:00–10:30	Session 2: Graphics, part II
	Graphics tricks for models Bill Rising StataCorp 30 minutes
10:30–11:35	Session 3: User-written commands
	Malmquist productivity analysis using DEA frontier in Stata Choonjoo Lee Korea National Defense University 15 minutes
	An interpretation and implementation of the Theil–Goldberger “mixed” estimator Christopher Baum Boston College and DIW Berlin 25 minutes
	Multilevel regression and poststratification in Stata Maurizio Pisati (with Valeria Glorioso) University of Milano–Bicocca and Harvard School of Public Health 25 minutes
11:35–12:35	Lunch
12:35–2:05	Session 4: Mata
	Mata, the missing manual William W. Gould StataCorp 90 minutes
2:05–2:20	Break
2:20–2:45	Session 4 (continued): Mata application/network analysis
	Stata Graph Library for network analysis Hirotaka Miura Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 25 minutes
2:45–3:45	Session 5: Time series
	Filtering and decomposing time series in Stata 12 David M. Drukker StataCorp 60 minutes
3:45–4:00	Break
4:00–5:00	Wishes and grumbles

Accommodations

InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile
505 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611