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2009 UK Stata Users Group meeting

Program announcement

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Dates:

Thursday and Friday, September 10–11, 2009

Venue:

Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
(just off Finsbury Square in the City of London)

Cost:

	Regular	Students
Both days	£75	£50
Single day	£50	£35

(Paper presenters enjoy reduced rates; see the registration information below.)

The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata user meetings. The meeting is open to all interested; in past years, participants were from Britain, Ireland, other European countries, the United States, and Australia. StataCorp will be represented.

Program Thursday, September 10
8:45–9:25	Registration and coffee/tea
9:25–9:30	Introduction and welcome Roger Newson, r.newson@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College, London Stephen Jenkins, stephenj@essex.ac.uk University of Essex
9:30–10:00	Selection endogenous dummy ordered probit, and selection endogenous dummy dynamic ordered probit models Massimiliano Bratti, massimiliano.bratti@unimi.it University of Milan Alfonso Miranda, a.miranda@ioe.ac.uk Institute of Education, University of London
10:00–10:30	Robust principal component analysis in Stata Vincenzo Verardi, vverardi@ulb.ac.be University of Brussels and University of Namur
10:30–11:00	Three models for combining information from causal indicators Maarten Buis, maarten.buis@ifsoz.uni-tuebingen.de University of Tuebingen
11:00–11:30	Coffee/tea
11:30–12:00	To the vector belong the spoils: Circular statistics in Stata Nicholas J. Cox, n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Durham University
12:00–12:30	Exporting and importing Stata genotype data to and from PHASE and HaploView Chuck Huber, jchuber@tamu.edu Texas A&M University
12:30–1:00	Improving the output capabilities of Stata with Open Document Format xml Adam Jacobs, ajacobs@dianthus.co.uk Dianthus Medical Limited, London
1:00–2:00	Lunch
2:00–2:20	The economics of Statalist exchanges Martin Weiss, martin.weiss1@gmx.de University of Tuebingen
2:20–2:40	Summarizing the results of simulation studies Ian White, ian.white@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge University
2:40–3:00	Rating scale analysis Michael Glencross, michael@case.org.za Community Agency for Social Enquiry, Johannesburg
3:00–3:20	Funnel plots for institutional comparisons Rosa Gini, rosa.gini@arsanita.toscana.it Regional Agency for Public Health of Tuscany Sylvia Forni, silvia.forni@arsanita.toscana.it Regional Agency for Public Health of Tuscany
3:30–3:40	Decomposition of inequality change into pro-poor growth and mobility components: dsginideco Stephen P. Jenkins, stephenj@essex.ac.uk University of Essex Philippe Van Kerm, philippe.vankerm@ceps.lu CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg
3:40–4:10	Coffee/tea
4:10–4:30	Education inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: A socioeconomic gradients analysis using Stata Roy Costilla, roycostilla@gmail.com LLECE/UNESCO, Santiago
4:30–5:30	Multiple-imputation analysis using Stata’s new mi command Yulia Marchenko, ymarchenko@stata.com StataCorp
5:30	End of formal sessions. Optional adjournment to pub, followed by dinner at restaurant (at participant’s own cost)
Friday, September 11
9:30–10:00	Contour enhanced funnel plots for meta-analysis Tom Palmer, tom.palmer@bristol.ac.uk University of Bristol
10:00–10:30	Homoskedastic adjustment inflation factors in model selection Roger B. Newson, r.newson@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London
10:30–11:00	Implementing econometric estimators with Mata Christopher F. Baum, baum@bc.edu Boston College Mark E. Schaffer, M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk Heriot-Watt University
11:00–11:30	Coffee/tea
11:30–1:00	Flexible parametric alternatives to the Cox model Paul Lambert, paul.lambert@le.ac.uk University of Leicester Patrick Royston, pr@ctu.mrc.ac.uk MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
1:00–2:00	Lunch
2:00–3:30	Recent developments in output processing Ben Jann, jannb@ethz.ch ETH, Zurich
3:30–4:00	Coffee/tea
4:00–5:15	Report to users, wishes and grumbles William Gould, wgould@stata.com StataCorp
5:15	Close

Registration

Timberlake Consultants generously sponsors registration fee waivers for presentations (only one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of number of authors involved). They will also pay a small fee to a presenter of a longer review or tutorial paper. Click here to register.

By British standards, London is usually relatively dry and warm in September.

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