Meetings: 2008 Italian Stata Users Group meeting

TStat S.r.l., the certified Stata distributor in Italy, announces the fifth Italian Stata Users Group meeting, to be held in Milan on October 20–21, 2008, at the Jolly Machiavelli Hotel.

The first day of the meeting is organized into 5 sessions. Each session will include three presentations of approximately 20 minutes each, followed by 10 to 15 minutes of discussion. The second day consists of two extended sessions that will run simultaneously.

Program

Monday, October 20
8:45 AM–9:15 AM	Registration
9:15 AM–10:30 AM	Session I. Invited speaker: Marcello Pagano (chair) Latent variable and other methods for cohort and other cross-sample/cross-measure comparisons Andrew Pickles Health Methodology Research Group, University of Manchester
10:30 AM–10:45 AM	Coffee break
10:45 AM–12:15 PM	Session II. User-written commands (chair: Una-Louise Bell) Confidence bands for the survival function Enzo Coviello Azienda USL BA/1 New wine in new bottles: Visualizing the progression over time of the epidemics of tobacco smoking and obesity through the use of modified population pyramids Giovanni Capelli Università di Cassino Bruno Federico Università di Cassino Giuseppe Costa Università di Torino Ordered probit models with anchoring vignettes Claudio Rossetti Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
12:15 PM–1:15 PM	Session III. Exploiting the potential of Stata (chair: Rino Bellocco) Reproducible research: Weaving with Stata Bill Rising StataCorp
1:15 PM–2:30 PM	Lunch
2:30 PM–4:30 PM	Session IV. User-written commands (chair: Rino Bellocco) Parametric and semiparametric estimation of ordered response models with sample selection and individual-specific thresholds Giuseppe de Luca ISFOL Valeria Perotti ISFOL Claudio Rossetti Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” A simulation-based sensitivity analysis for matching estimators Tommaso Nannicini Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Estimating and testing multiway error-components models with correlated effects in Stata Giovanni Bruno Università Bocconi A seasonal unit root test with Stata Domenico Depalo Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”
4:30 PM–4:45 PM	Coffee break
4:45 PM–5:45 PM	Session V. User-written commands and Teaching with Stata (chair: Giovanni Capelli) The use of Stata in biostat teaching Rino Bellocco Università di Milano–Bicocca and Karolinska Institutet Discussion Marcello Pagano Harvard School of Public Health Maurizio Pisati Università di Milano–Bicocca
5:45 PM–6:15 PM	Report to users and Wishes and grumbles (chair: Marcello Pagano) Alan Riley StataCorp
Tuesday, October 21 These two courses will run simultaneously beginning at 9:00 AM. Multilevel modeling in Stata (9:00 AM–5:00 PM) Andrew Pickles Health Methodology Research Group, University of Manchester This course provides an introduction to multilevel modeling in Stata using the xt suite of commands. Morning: Fixed- and random-effect estimates Nonindependent sampling, matching, and assumptions about confounding Within and between estimators Random-intercept models xtreg, xtmixed, and gllamm Panel-data, random-coefficient, and multilevel models Change score, ANCOVA, and growth curve models Trajectory classes Models with multiple levels Afternoon: Generalized linear mixed modeling Generalized linear models Subject-specific and population-average models The xt suite Extension to latent variables Introducing correlation among equations Generalized instrumental-variables model Two-parameter item response (IRT) models Multilevel factor models Introduction to programming with Mata (9:00 AM–1:00 PM) Alan Riley StataCorp Bill Rising StataCorp This course is an introduction to programming Mata, Stata’s fast, compiled matrix-programming language. The course will cover the basics of Mata, including types, operators, functions, and structures. The use of Mata both interactively and in batch mode from Stata do-files and ado-files will be illustrated. Mata’s power and speed as a programming tool for data management and statistics will be demonstrated. Introduction to Mata Types, operators, functions, and structures Calling Mata from do- and ado-files Data and file management Performing statistical analysis

2008 Italian Stata Users Group meeting

Program announcement

Program

Monday, October 20

Tuesday, October 21

Registration and accommodations

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