The programme for the 12th UK Stata Users Group meeting is now up at
http://www.stata.com/meeting/12uk/index.html
and at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/
with thanks to StataCorp and Timberlake respectively.
The next UK Stata Users Group meeting will be held at City University in
London on September 11-12, 2006. This central location is near the Royal
Statistical Society and Thomas Bayes' burial place.
Stata Users Group meetings started in London in 1995, and there has been
a meeting every year since. These meetings have an international flavour,
usually attracting several visitors from other countries.
The 12th London meeting features a strong cast of speakers across the
spectrum of the Stata community, including visitors from Australia,
Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. StataCorp
will be represented by David Drukker and Vince Wiggins, who will give
three extended tutorials.
Potential visitors to London might like to know that, by British
standards, September is usually relatively dry and warm.
Dates: Monday and Tuesday, September 11-12, 2006
Venue: City University
Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
Program
Monday, September 11
8:45-9:25 Registration and coffee/tea
9:25-9:30 Introduction and welcome
9:30-11:00
Automating the production of large reports from Stata
Ross Harris
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
Automatic generation of documents
Rosa Gini and Jacopo Pasquini
Regional Agency for Public Health of Tuscany
Another extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to nonlinear models
Tam�s Bartus
Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest
11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea
11:30-12:50
A comparison analysis of dynamic panel-data estimators in the presence of endogenous regressors
Giovanni S. F. Bruno
Istituto di Economia Politica, Universit� Bocconi, Milan
On the central role of Somers' D
Roger Newson
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Consistency checking with -assertk-
Krishnan Bhaskaran, Hannah Green
MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
12:50-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30
Variance estimation for quantile group shares, cumulative shares, and Gini coefficient
Stephen P. Jenkins
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Econometric analysis of panel data using Stata
David M. Drukker
StataCorp, College Station, TX
3:30-4:00 Coffee/tea
4:00-5:15
Statistics for the paranormal
Nicholas J. Cox
Durham University
Scheming your way to consistent graphs
Vincent L. Wiggins
StataCorp, College Station, TX
5:15 Close
Conference dinner (optional)
Tuesday, September 12
9:30-11:00
Estimating and modeling the proportion cured of disease in population-based cancer studies
Paul C. Lambert
Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester
Two postestimation commands for assessing confounding effects in medical and epidemiological studies
Zhiqiang Wang
Centre for Chronic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Queensland
Problems with infinite solutions in logistic regression
Ian White
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea
11:30-12:45
Visualizing and analyzing time to event data: Lifting the veil of censoring
Patrick Royston
MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
Modeling for response variables that are proportions
Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30
A brief introduction to Mata
David M. Drukker
StataCorp, College Station, TX
Time-series filtering techniques in Stata
Kit Baum
Department of Economics, Boston College
3:30-4:00 Coffee/tea
4:00-5:15
Report to users, followed by Wishes and grumbles
Registration and accommodation
The cost is �75.00 for both days or �50 for one day.
There will be an optional dinner for an additional �30.00.
To enroll, visit
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/Request_forms/stataug_form.html
and fill out the registration form by September 6, 2006.
For assistance in finding accommodation, or for more information, contact [email protected].
The meeting's scientific program is organized by Nick Cox from Durham University
([email protected]) and Patrick Royston from the MRC Clinical Trials Unit,
London ([email protected]).
The meeting's logistic arrangements are organized by Timberlake Consultants,
the distributors of Stata in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Nick
[email protected]
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