Meetings: 2011 UK Stata Users Group meeting

This year, the meeting will be held at Cass Business School, London, on September 15–16. The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata Users Group meetings. The meeting is open to everyone who is interested; in past years, participants were from Britain, Ireland, other European countries, the United States, and Australia. StataCorp will be represented.

The meeting will include the usual “Wishes and grumbles” session, during which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. You are invited to attend an optional informal meal (at additional cost) at a London restaurant on Thursday evening, September 15, 2011.

Program

Thursday, September 15

8:45–9:25	Registration and coffee/tea
9:25–9:30	Introduction and welcome Stephen Jenkins London School of Economics Roger B. Newson National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
9:30–10:00	Sensible parameters for polynomials and other splines Roger B. Newson National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
10:00–10:25	Experiences and lessons learned from bootstrapping random-effects predictions Robert Grant Kingston University and St. George’s University of London
10:25–10:45	Sensitivity analysis for randomized trials with missing outcome data Ian White MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
10:45–11:00	Implementing the continual reassessment method (CRM) Adrian Mander MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology, Cambridge
11:00–11:30	Coffee/tea
11:30–11:55	A review of estimators for the fixed effects ordered logit model Arne Risa Hole University of Sheffield
11:55–12:20	Generalized method of moments fitting of structural mean models Tom Palmer MRC CAiTE Centre, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol
12:20–12:40	Flexible joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data Michael J. Crowther Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
12:40–1:00	Sample size and power estimation when covariates are measured with error Michael Wallace London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
1:00–2:00	Lunch
2:00–2:20	Splines models for prediction of house prices David Boniface Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
2:20–2:40	Endogenous treatment effects for count-data models with endogenous participation or sample selection Alfonso Miranda Institute of Education, University of London
2:40–3:00	Multiple imputation with large proportions of missing data: How much is too much? Jin Hyuk Lee Texas A&M Health Science Center
3:00–3:20	Testing the performance of the two fold FCS algorithm for multiple imputation of longitudinal clinical records Irene Petersen University College London
3:20–4:00	Coffee/tea
4:00–4:30	Implementing procedures for spatial panel econometrics in Stata Gordon Hughes School of Economics, University of Edinburgh
4:30–5:30	Structural equation modeling for those who think they don’t care Vince Wiggins StataCorp LP
5:30	End of formal sessions. Optional adjournment to pub, followed by dinner at restaurant (at participant’s own cost)

Friday, September 16

9:00–10:00	Chained equations and more in multiple imputation in Stata 12 Yulia Marchenko StataCorp LP
10:00–10:20	Exporting CAPI data to Stata: Experience from surveybe Joachim De Weerdt Economic Development Initiatives, Tanzania
10:20–10:40	Using Mata to import Illumina SNP chip data for genome-wide association studies J. Charles Huber, Jr. Texas A&M University
10:40–11:00	Using Stata for handling CDISC datasets Adam Jacobs Dianthus Medical Limited
11:00–11:30	Coffee/tea
11:30–11:55	Picturing mobility: Transition probability color plots Philippe Van Kerm CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg
11:55–12:20	Running multilevel models in MLwiN from within Stata: runmlwin George Leckie Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol
12:20–12:45	Plagiarism in student papers and cheating in student exams: Results from surveys using special techniques for sensitive questions Ben Jann University of Bern
12:45–1:00	Lowering your handicap with Stata Tim Collier London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
1:00–2:00	Lunch
2:00–2:30	Fun and fluency with functions Nicholas J. Cox Durham University
2:30–3:30	Panel time-series modeling: New tools for analyzing xt data Markus Eberhardt University of Oxford
3:30–4:00	Coffee/tea
4:00–5:15	Report to users, Wishes and grumbles Vince Wiggins StataCorp
5:15	Close

Registration

Timberlake Consultants generously sponsors registration fee waivers for presenters (only one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of the 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.

Pre-dinner drinks and the Users Group meeting dinner will begin at 6:00 PM on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at:

Timberlake can also assist delegates with sourcing accommodations and with other general inquiries regarding traveling or staying in London.

The conference fee covers costs for coffee, tea, and luncheons. By British standards, London is usually relatively dry and warm in September.

Organizers

Timberlake Consultants, distributors of Stata in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.

2011 UK Stata Users Group meeting

Announcement

Program

Thursday, September 15

Friday, September 16

Registration

Organizers