2007 West Coast Stata Users Group meeting

The first West Coast (of the United States) Stata Users Group meeting will be held October 25 and 26, 2007, at Marina del Rey Hotel, located 10 minutes from Los Angeles International Airport at water’s edge.

Stata Users Group meetings started in Britain in 1995 and have spread to Italy, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Australia, and the East Coast. Talks are intended to be accessible to a general audience with mixed levels of expertise in Stata and statistics. Stata developers will also attend, both to present new Stata features and to take notes during the popular “Wishes and grumbles” session. We hope you will consider attending the meeting.

Program

Thursday, October 25, 2007

9:00–9:30	Registration and welcome
9:30–10:30	Prediction of random effects and effects of misspecification of their distribution Charles McCulloch University of California, San Francisco
10:30–11:00	Panel data methods for microeconometrics using Stata Colin Cameron University of California, Davis
11:00–11:30	Break
11:30–11:55	Repeated measures anova: The wide, the long, and the long Phil Ender University of California, Los Angeles
11:55–12:20	Survey data analysis with Stata 10: Accessible and comprehensive Christine Wells University of California, Los Angeles
12:20–12:45	Multilevel modeling of complex survey data Sophia Rabe-Hesketh University of California, Berkeley
12:45–1:00	Calculating measures of comorbidity using administrative data Vicki Stagg University of Calgary
1:00–2:15	Lunch
2:15–2:40	An algorithm for creating models for imputation using the MICE approach: An application in Stata Rose Medeiros University of California, Los Angeles
2:40–3:05	Modeling multiple source risk factor data and health outcomes in twins Andy Bogart University of Washington, Seattle
3:05–3:25	Rapid formation of regression tables for research purposes Roy Wada RAND and University of California, Los Angeles
3:25–3:35	Syntax coloring, etc. Elliott Lowy VA Health Services Research and Development
3:35–4:00	Break
4:00–4:30	Meta-analytical integration of diagnostic accuracy studies in Stata Ben Dwamena University of Michigan
4:30–4:55	Estimating heterogeneous choice models with Stata Richard Williams University of Notre Dame
4:55–5:10	Using regular expressions for data management in Stata Rose Medeiros University of California, Los Angeles
5:10–5:30	Managing meta-data in Stata Elliott Lowy VA Health Services Research and Development

Friday, October 26, 2007

9:00–10:30	Teaching with Stata Alan Acock and Tony Lachenbruch Oregon State University
10:30–11:00	Break
11:00–12:30	Graph editing Vince Wiggins StataCorp
12:30–1:45	Lunch
1:45–2:45	Creating self-validating datasets Bill Rising StataCorp
2:45–3:45	Estimating average treatment effects in Stata Guido Imbens Harvard University
3:45–4:15	Break
4:15–5:30	Report to users and Wishes and grumbles Alan Riley StataCorp

Click here to download a PDF of the schedule.

Registration

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved for StataCorp at the Marina del Rey Hotel for October 23–26, 2007. The discounted group rate is $135.00 per night. Tax is an additional 13%.

To reserve a room, call or email the Marina del Rey Hotel. Please refer to the StataCorp 2007 West Coast Stata Users Group meeting when making your reservation.

Marina del Rey Hotel
13534 Bali Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Main phone number: 800-882-4000 or 310-301-1000
Fax number: 310-301-8167
Email: reservations@marinadelreyhotel.com
Website: www.marinadelreyhotel.com
Check in time: 3:00 PM
Check out time: 12:00 PM
General hotel parking: free; valet/overflow parking: $5.00

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