2008 Summer North American Stata Users Group meeting: Program announcement

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2008 Summer North American Stata Users Group meeting

Dates:

July 24–25, 2008

Venue:

Gleacher Center, University of Chicago
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
www.gleachercenter.com

Cost:

	Price	Student price
Single day	$95	$40
Both days	$160	$65

Optional dinner at Maggiano’s Little Italy	$38
Register now (Deadline: July 21, 2008)

Program announcement

The Summer North American Stata Users Group (SNASUG) meeting will be held July 24–25, 2008, at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Gleacher Center. This will be the first Stata users’ meeting held in Chicago; previous North American meetings have been held in Boston and Los Angeles. The Gleacher Center is located downtown on the bank of the Chicago River, just steps from Michigan Avenue and within walking distance from most downtown attractions.

Stata Users Group meetings are enjoyable and rewarding for Stata users at all levels and from all disciplines. As always, this year’s program will consist primarily of user presentations together with a couple of longer talks by invited presenters. In addition, the program will include the ever-popular “Wishes and Grumbles” session in which users have an opportunity to share their comments and suggestions directly with developers from StataCorp, and the “Report to Users” session with StataCorp president William Gould.

Program

Thursday, July 24

7:30 AM–8:30 AM	Registration, Coffee/Tea, Bagels/Muffins
8:30 AM–9:45 AM	Session 1 Understanding statistics using simulate Maarten Buis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam GMM estimation in Mata Austin Nichols Urban Institute
9:45 AM–10:00 AM	Break
10:00 AM–11:30 AM	Session 2 The effects of single mothers’ welfare participation and work decisions on children’s attainments Hau Chyi WISE, Xiamen University, China Orgul Ozturk Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina Multivariate mixed models for meta-analysis of paired-comparison studies of two medical diagnostic tests Ben Dwamena University of Michigan Radiology and VA Nuclear Medicine Service Teaching consumer theory with maximum likelihood estimation of demand systems Carl Nelson University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
11:30 AM–12:30 PM	Lunch
12:30 PM–1:30 PM	Session 3 Semiparametric generalized linear models Paul Rathouz Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
1:30 PM–2:30 PM	Session 4 Using Stata as a computational tool in a relational database environment Tom Mustillo Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Sarah Mustillo Purdue University USESPSS: Processing SPSS files in Stata Sergiy Radyakin The World Bank Reshaping the World Development Indicators (WDI) for panel data and seemingly unrelated regression modeling in Stata P. Wilner Jeanty The Ohio State University
2:30 PM–2:45 PM	Break
2:45 PM–3:45 PM	Session 5 Estimating the parameters of dynamic panel-data models using Stata David Drukker StataCorp
3:45 PM–4:00 PM	Break
4:00 PM–4:45 PM	Wishes and grumbles StataCorp

Friday, July 25

7:30 AM–8:30 AM	Coffee/Tea, Bagels/Muffins
8:30 AM–10:15 AM	Session 1 Estimation of constant-CV regression models Alan Feiveson NASA Johnson Space Center Logistic regression by means of penalized maximum likelihood estimation in cases of separation Joseph Coveney Cobridge Co., Ltd. Finite mixture models Partha Deb Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
10:15 AM–10:30 AM	Break
10:30 AM–11:45 AM	Session 2 Inference for partial effects in nonlinear panel-data models using Stata Jeffrey Wooldridge Department of Economics, Michigan State University
11:45 AM–12:45 PM	Lunch
12:45 PM–2:15 PM	Session 3 Analyzing survey data using Stata 10 Roberto G. Gutierrez StataCorp Survey bootstrap and bootstrap weights Stas Kolenikov Department of Statistics, University of Missouri–Columbia
2:15 PM–2:30 PM	Break
2:30 PM–3:30 PM	Session 4 Analyzing spatial autoregressive models in Stata David Drukker StataCorp
3:30 PM–4:00 PM	Report to users William Gould StataCorp

For proceedings of previous Stata Users Group meetings, visit http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.

Registration

Click here to register. Registration deadline is July 17, 2008.

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved for StataCorp at the Inn of Chicago for July 23–26, 2008. The discounted group rate is $170.00 per night. Tax is an additional 15.4%.

If you would like to reserve a room from this block at this rate, please call 800-782-8272 or email Gretchen Farrar (gfarrar@stata.com) at StataCorp. The deadline for reserving a room is June 19, 2008.

Hotel details

Inn of Chicago
162 E. Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 (map)
Website: http://www.innofchicago.com
General hotel parking: Self-parking is directly across the street ($36/day), and valet parking ($41/day) is available
Mass Transit: Walking distance from the Grand subway stop

Special needs

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

Organizers

Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions.

Scientific organizers

Scott Long, Indiana University
Phil Schumm (chair), University of Chicago
Pravin Trivedi, Indiana University
Richard Williams, University of Notre Dame

Logistics organizers

Chris Farrar, StataCorp LP
Gretchen Farrar, StataCorp LP

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