Stata Conference San Diego 2012: Final program

Announcement

Join us for the 2012 Stata Conference in San Diego, California.

The Stata Conference is enjoyable and rewarding for Stata users at all levels and from all disciplines. This year’s program consists of presentations by users, invited speakers, and 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.

Attending from StataCorp are Bill Gould, President and Head of Development; Chuck Huber, Senior Statistician; Kristin MacDonald, Senior Statistician; and Bill Rising, Director of Educational Services. Kristin MacDonald will present Structural equation modeling using the SEM Builder and the sem command, and Chuck Huber will present Psychometric analysis using Stata. The "Report to users" and "Wishes and grumbles" will be led by Bill Gould.

Program

Thursday, July 26

8:00–8:50	Registration and breakfast
8:50–9:00	Welcome and introduction
9:00–9:20	Custom Stata commands for semi-automatic confidentiality screening of Statistics Canada data Jesse McCrosky University of Saskatchewan
9:20–9:40	scdensity: A program for self-consistent density estimation Joerg Luedicke University of Florida and Yale University
9:40–10:00	TMPM: The trauma mortality prediction model is robust to ICD-9, ICD-10, and AIS Coding lexicons Alan Cook Baylor University Medical Center
10:00–10:45	Break
10:45–11:30	Graphics (and numerics) for univariate distributions Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, UK
11:30–12:00	Binary choice models with endogenous regressors Christopher Baum Boston College and DIW Berlin Yingying Dong University of California–Irvine Arthur Lewbel Boston College
12:00–1:00	Lunch
1:00–1:20	EFA within a CFA context Phil Ender UCLA Statistical Consulting
1:20–2:15	Structural equation modeling using the SEM Builder and the sem command Kristin MacDonald StataCorp LP
2:15–2:40	Break
2:40–3:10	An application of multiple imputation and sampling-based estimation Haluk Gedikoglu Lincoln University of Missouri
3:10–3:30	The application of Stata’s multiple-imputation techniques to analyze a design of experiments with multiple responses Clara Novoa Texas State University
3:30–4:00	Imagining a Stata/Python combination James Fiedler Universities Space Research Association
4:00–4:20	Big data, little spaces, high speed: Using Stata to analyze the determinants of broadband access in the United States David Beede U.S. Department of Commerce Brittany Bond U.S. Department of Commerce
4:20–4:40	A comparative analysis of lottery-, charter-, and traditional-based elementary schools within the Anchorage school district Matthew McCauley University of Alaska–Anchorage
6:30	Optional dinner at Café Sevilla

Friday, July 27

8:15–9:00	Registration and breakfast
9:00–9:55	Psychometric analysis using Stata Chuck Huber StataCorp LP
9:55–10:15	Issues for analyzing competing-risks data with missing or misclassification in causes Ronny Westerman Philipps-University of Marburg
10:15–10:35	Generating survival data for fitting marginal structural Cox models using Stata Ehsan Karim University of British Columbia
10:35–11:00	Break
11:00–11:20	Computing optimal strata bounds using dynamic programming Eric Miller Summit Consulting
11:20–11:50	Correct standard errors for multistage regression-based estimators: A guide for practitioners with illustrations Joseph Terza University of North Carolina–Greensboro
11:50–1:00	Lunch
1:00–1:20	Shrinkage estimators for structural parameters Tirthankar Chakravarty University of California–San Diego
1:20–1:40	Stata implementation of the nonparametric spatial heteroskedasticity- and autocorrelation-consistent covariance matrix estimator P. Wilner Jeanty Rice University
1:40–2:00	Matching individuals in the Current Population Survey: A distance-based approach Stuart Craig Yale University
2:00–2:20	Allocative efficiency analysis using DEA in Stata Choonjoo Lee Korea National Defense University
2:20–2:40	Adoption: A new Stata routine for consistently estimating population technological adoption parameters Aliou Diagne Africa Rice Center
2:40–3:00	Break
3:00–3:45	Report to users Bill Gould StataCorp LP
3:45–4:30	Wishes and grumbles: User feedback and Q&A

Registration

Register for the 2012 Stata Conference online. An optional dinner will be held Thursday evening at Café Sevilla for $48 per person. If you have any questions or special needs (vegetarian, handicapped, etc.), contact Sarah Marrs (smarrs@stata.com).

Accommodations

For reservations at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, call 1-888-421-1442 and metion you are with the Stata group.

Hotel details

Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego
One Market Place
San Diego, California, USA 92101

Tel: 1-888-421-1442
manchestergrand.hyatt.com

Scientific committee

A. Colin Cameron
University of California–Davis
Xiao Chen
University of California–Los Angeles
Phil Ender (chair)
University of California–Los Angeles
Estie Hudes
University of California–San Francisco
Michael Mitchell
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Logistics organizer

Sarah Marrs
Customer Relationship Manager
StataCorp LP