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.
|
|
|
 |
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
|
|
|
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.