1st Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting

The first Stata Users Group meeting in the Nordic and Baltic countries will be held on September 26, 2005, in Stockholm. The objective of the meeting is to provide Stata users working in different research areas with the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new ways to apply the software. In addition William Gould, President and Head of Development at StataCorp, will participate in the meeting and give a presentation on Mata, Stata's new matrix-based programming language. Roberto Gutierrez, Director of Statistics at StataCorp, will talk about xtmixed, Stata's new procedure for multilevel and hierarchical models. Source: Stockholm Visitors Board Photographer: Alexander V Dokukin

Date: September 26, 2005 Venue: Karolinska Institutet MEB Wargentin Lecture Hall Nobels väg 12A SE-171 77 Stockholm SWEDEN Cost: Conference only: free   Conference plus optional dinner: 250 SEK   See Registration and accommodations for more details.

Program

September 26, 2005 09:00–09:15 Registration 09:15–09:30 Opening of the meeting 09:30–10:00 Generalized least squares for trend estimation of summarized dose-response data N. Orsini, R. Bellocco, and S. Greenland 10:00–10:30 Experiences from teaching data documentation with Stata S. Juul 10:30–11:00 Coffee 11:00–11:30 Estimating and modelling relative survival using Stata P. Dickman and E. Coviello 11:30–12:00 Using Stata for Agent Based Modeling P. Hedström and L. Jasny 12:00–12:30 Combining Data Analyses and Agent Based Modeling Y. Åberg 12:30–13:30 Lunch 13:30–14:00 Model selection in Multivariable Regression Analysis N. Berglind 14:00–15:30 Presentation of Mata — Stata's new matrix-based programming language W. Gould 15:30–16:00 Coffee 16:00–17:30 Presentation of xtmixed — Stata's new procedure for estimating multilevel and hierarchical models R. Gutierrez 17:30 Closing of the meeting 19:00 Dinner at the Restaurant Rött at Rörstrandsgatan 19

Registration and accommodations

To sign up for the meeting simply send an email to metrika@metrika.se. An optional conference dinner will be held on Monday evening at Restaurang Rött — a popular local restaurant. Please let us know before 20 September if you want to attend the dinner. The charge for the dinner is 250 SEK.

The conference will be held at the Karolinska Institute. Make your hotel reservations as early as possible. Elite Palace Hotel at St. Eriksgatan 155 is a comfortable hotel within walking distance from the conference site. For reservations, call +46 (0)8 566 217 00. A conference discount is available if you mention that you are attending our meeting at the Karolinska Institute. A low-budget alternative, centrally located and within walking distance, is Wasa Park Hotel at St. Eriksplan 1. For reservations call, +46 (0)8 545 453 00.

The meeting is arranged by Metrika Consulting (www.metrika.se), the certified distributor of Stata in the Nordic and Baltic regions. For further information, contact them at metrika@metrika.se. We look forward to seeing you in Stockholm on September 26.