Meetings: 2011 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting

2011 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting

Date:	Friday, November 11, 2011
Venue:	CMB, Berzelius väg 21 Solna Campus Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden
Hosted by:	Unit of Biostatistics, IMM 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.

Announcement

The 2011 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group 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.

Program

Friday, November 11, 2011

8:45–9:00	Introduction and welcome
9:00–9:25	Doubly robust estimation in generalized linear models with Stata Arvid Sjölander and Nicola Orsini Karolinska Institutet
9:25–9:50	A command for Laplace regression Nicola Orsini Karolinska Institutet
9:50–10:15	Time to dementia onset: Competing-risks analysis with Laplace regression Giola Santoni, Debora Rizzuto, and Laura Fratiglioni Karolinska Institutet
10:15–10:30	An example of competing-risks analysis using Stata Christel Häggström Umeå University
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–12:00	Chained equations and more in multiple imputation in Stata 12 Yulia Marchenko StataCorp
12:00–12:25	Quantile imputation of missing data Matteo Bottai Karolinska Institutet
12:25–1:30	Lunch break
1:30–1:55	Simulating complex survival data Michael J. Crowther University of Leicester Paul C. Lambert University of Leicester and Karolinska Institutet
1:55–2:10	Quantiles of the survival time from inverse probability weighted Kaplan–Meier estimates Andrea Discacciati Karolinska Institutet
2:10–2:25	Projecting cancer incidence using restricted cubic splines Mark J. Rutherford, Paul C. Lambert, and John R. Thompson University of Leicester
2:25–2:40	Using meta-analysis to inform the design of subsequent studies Sally R. Hinchliffe, Michael J. Crowther, Alison Donald, and Alex J. Sutton University of Leicester
2:40–3:05	Using Stata for agent-based simulations Peter Hedström Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden Thomas Grund ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
3:05–3:20	Coffee break
3:20–3:45	Comparing observed and theoretical distributions Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie, Universitaet Tuebingen
3:45–4:00	Taking the pain out of looping and storing Patrick Royston MRC Clinical Trials Unit
4:00–5:00	SEM for those who think they don’t care Vince Wiggins StataCorp
5:00–5:15	Wishes and grumbles

Old Town

Organizers

Scientific committee

Nicola Orsini, nicola.orsini@ki.se

Unit of Biostatistics, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine
Karolinska Institutet

Matteo Bottai, matteo.bottai@ki.se

Unit of Biostatistics, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine
Karolinska Institutet

Peter Hedström, peter.hedstrom@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Nuffield College
Oxford University

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.