2011 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting

Date: Friday, November 11, 2011 Venue: Unit of Biostatistics Institute of Environmental Medicine Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Cost: Conference only: Free Conference plus optional dinner: TBA See Registration below for more information. Workshop: Workshop on applications and developments of flexible parametric survival models Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011 Venue: Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden Cost: Free Visit the workshop’s website for registration information. Old Town

Announcement and call for presentations

This is the first announcement and call for presentations for the 2011 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting. The meeting is open to everyone. Personnel from StataCorp will attend, and there will be the usual “Wishes and grumbles” session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. Attending from StataCorp are Yulia Marchenko, Associate Director, Biostatistics and Vince Wiggins, Vice President, Scientific Development.

There will also be an optional dinner in a Stockholm restaurant on Friday evening for an additional cost.

Registration

To register for the meeting, please send an email to metrika@metrika.se containing your name, affiliation, and contact details.

Submissions

Please email the the scientific committee if you are interested in giving a presentation. Indicate whether you wish to give

• a 20 min talk (followed by a 10 min discussion),
• a 10 min talk (followed by a 5 min discussion), or
• some other presentation.

Abstracts should be sent by email no later than September 30, 2011 to nicola.orsini@ki.se. Presentations could focus on a topic of interest, including but not limited to

• using Stata for modeling and analysis
• user-written Stata programs
• using Stata to import and manage data
• using Stata for graphics
• teaching Stata
• teaching statistics with Stata
• surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
• software comparisons

No level of sophistication is assumed for presenters or attendees. The scientific committee looks forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution.

Organizers

Scientific committee

Logistics organizers

The meeting is jointly organized by the Unit of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Metrika Consulting.

Metrika is the distributor of Stata in the Nordic and Baltic regions. For further information, contact them at metrika@metrika.se.