2008 Fall North American Stata Users Group meeting in San Francisco

The 2008 Fall North American Stata Users Group meeting will be held November 13 and 14 at Handlery Union Square Hotel, located in downtown San Francisco.

Stata Users Group meetings started in Britain in 1995 and have been spreading to more and more countries, including Italy, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Poland, and the United States. Talks are intended for a general audience with mixed levels of expertise in Stata and statistics.

The invited speakers are Christopher Baum (Department of Economics, Boston College), Colin Cameron (Department of Economics, UC–Davis), John Neuhaus (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC–San Francisco), and Joe Schafer (Department of Statistics, Penn State). Stata developers will also attend the meeting, both to present and to take notes during the popular “wishes and grumbles” session. We hope you will consider joining us in November.

Program

Thursday, November 13
9:00 AM–9:30 AM	Registration
9:30 AM–10:30 AM	Tricks of the trade: Getting the most out of xtmixed Roberto G. Gutierrez StataCorp
10:30 AM–10:50 AM	Multilevel modeling of educational longitudinal data with crossed random effects Minjeong Jeon University of California–Berkeley Sophia Rabe-Hesketh University of California–Berkeley
10:50 AM–11:15 AM	Coffee
11:15 AM–12:15 PM	The consequences of misspecifying the random-effects distribution when fitting generalized linear mixed models John M. Neuhaus University of California–San Francisco Charles E. McCulloch University of California–San Francisco
12:15 PM–12:40 PM	Prediction in multilevel logistic regression Sophia Rabe-Hesketh University of California–Berkeley Anders Skrondal Norwegian Institute of Public Health
12:40 PM–1:00 PM	Heteroskedasticity, extremity, and moderation in heterogeneous choice models Garrett Glasgow University of California–Santa Barbara
1:00 PM–2:15 PM	Lunch
2:15 PM–2:40 PM	A generalized meta-analysis model for binary diagnostic test performance Ben Dwamena University of Michigan Radiology and VA Nuclear Medicine
2:40 PM–3:00 PM	It’s a little different with survey data Christine Wells UCLA
3:00 PM–3:25 PM	Using Stata’s capabilities to assess the performance of Latin American students in mathematics, reading, and science Roy Costilla LLECE/UNESCO Santiago
3:25 PM–3:50 PM	3-way ANOVA interactions: Deconstructed Phil Ender UCLA
3:50 PM–4:15 PM	Coffee
4:15 PM–4:40 PM	Some challenges in survival analysis with large datasets Noori Akhtar-Danesh McMaster University
4:40 PM–4:55 PM	Stata and the one-armed bandit Martin Weiss University of Tuebingen, Germany
4:55 PM–5:40 PM	Semiparametric analysis of case–control genetic data in the presence of environmental factors Yulia Marchenko StataCorp
Friday, November 14
9:00 AM–10:00 AM	Using Mata to work more effectively with Stata: A tutorial Christopher F. Baum Boston College and DIW Berlin
10:00 AM–10:25 AM	Mata utilities Elliott Lowy VAPSHCS HSR&D
10:25 AM–10:50 AM	Coffee
10:50 AM–11:50 AM	Estimating user-defined nonlinear regression models in Stata and in Mata Colin Cameron University of California–Davis
11:50 AM–12:15 PM	Automated stress tests for econometric models Roy Epstein Boston College
12:15 PM–12:35 PM	Data I/O commands Elliott Lowy VAPSHCS HSR&D
12:35 PM–1:45 PM	Lunch
1:45 PM–2:45 PM	Causal regression with imputed estimating equations Joseph Schafer Penn State Joseph Kang Penn State
2:45 PM–3:10 PM	Likelihood-ratio tests for multiply imputed datasets: Introducing milrtest Rose Medeiros UCLA
3:10 PM–3:35 PM	UCLA ATS/Stat consulting service model for Stata users Xiao Chen UCLA
3:35 PM–4:00 PM	Coffee
4:00 PM–4:40 PM	Report to users William W. Gould StataCorp
4:40 PM–5:10 PM	Wishes and grumbles Stata developers StataCorp

Registration

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved for StataCorp at the Handlery Union Square Hotel for November 12–14, 2008. The discounted group rate is $135.00 per night; tax is an additional 14%.

To reserve a room, call or email the Handlery Union Square Hotel. Please refer to the StataCorp 2008 Fall North American Stata Users Group meeting when making your reservation.

Check in is at 3 p.m. and check out is at noon. Parking is $38 per day with in/out privileges; however, the hotel is quite close to both BART and the cable cars.

If you have any special needs (vegetarian, handicapped, etc.), please contact Chris Farrar, cfarrar@stata.com, or Gretchen Farrar, gfarrar@stata.com.