3rd North American Stata Users Group meeting, Boston, MA
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What it is
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Monday, August 23, 2004
User talks and presentations
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Featured training courses:
* Generalized linear latent and mixed models
* Stata graphics
Where it is
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Longwood Galleria Conference Center
342 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
The cost
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$85 (student $45)
You can register online at
http://www.stata.com/support/meeting/3nasug/register.html
Cost is for both days and includes lunch and refreshments.
Who should come
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Anyone interested in Stata, regardless of level of expertise
or geographic location, is invited to attend. The meeting will
include the ever-popular "wishes and grumbles" session where
users make comments and suggestions to StataCorp.
Detailed schedule
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Day 1 User talks and presentations
Session 1: 8:30-9:45 Statistical Methods
Use of Gaussian integration in Stata
Alan Feiveson, NASA - Johnson Space Center
Generating random variables from the N/I distributions
Peter A. Lachenbruch, U.S. FDA
Econometric techniques for estimating treatment effects
Zhehui Luo, Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University
Sample-size calculation for longitudinal studies
Phil Schumm, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
Break: 9:45-10:15
Session 2: 10:15-11:45 Data Management Using Stata
Using Stata for questionnaire development
Theodore Pollari & Phil Schumm, Department of Health Studies,
University of Chicago
Translating data between MySQL and Stata
Michael Johnson & Phil Schumm, Department of Health Studies,
University of Chicago
Working with ODBC data sources in Stata: tips and techniques
Joseph Coveney, Cobridge Co., Ltd., Tokyo
Using Stata with large datasets in corporate America: lessons learned
Ed Bassin, ProfSoft, Inc.
Lunch: 11:45-1:00
Session 3: 1:00-2:15 Stata Graphics
Graphics for categories and compositions
Nicholas J. Cox, Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK
Metagraphiti by Stata: Visuographical exploration and
presentation of meta-analytic data using Stata
Ben Dwamena, University of Michigan Medical School
Density-distribution sunflower plots in Stata 8
William D. Dupont, Department of Biostatistics,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Break: 2:15-2:40
Session 4: 2:40-4:00 Data Analysis Using Stata
Replication methods for complex survey analysis in Stata
Nicholas Winter, Department of Government, Cornell University
Rolling regressions with Stata
Kit Baum, Department of Economics, Boston College and RePEc
Implementation of quasi-least squares using xtgee in Stata
Justine Shults, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
To help others in teaching statistics using the Stata software
Susan Hailpern, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sensitivity analysis on traffic crash prediction models by using Stata
Deo Chimba, Department of Civil Engineering, Florida State University
Break: 4:00-4:15
Session 5: 4:15-5:30 StataCorp on Stata
Report to users/Wishes and grumbles
William Gould, StataCorp
Day 2 Featured training courses
Training course 1: 8:30-12:00 (includes 30-minute break)
Generalized linear latent and mixed models
Presented by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, University of California, Berkeley,
and co-author of Generalized Latent Variable Modeling:
Multilevel, Longitudinal, and Structural Equation Models (2004).
Lunch: 12:00-1:30
Training course 2: 1:30-5:00 (includes 30-minute break)
Stata graphics
Presented by Vince Wiggins, Vice President of Scientific Development,
StataCorp and architect of Stata's graphics commands. This course will
cover in detail the basic commands and concepts for building
high-quality
Stata graphs from scratch. You will learn new approaches to creating
graphs,
including organizing and managing your data, and creating custom
schemes.
To see proceedings from previous Stata Users Group meetings,
see www.stata.com/support/meeting/.
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Best Western Boston
- the Inn at Longwood Medical for August 21-24, 2004. The hotel
is offering a limited number of sleeping rooms at a discount rate
of $149.00 plus 12.45% tax per room per night. Please call the hotel
direct at 617-731-4700 or toll free at 800-468-2378 and ask for
in-house reservations. If you have any difficulty reserving a room
at the discounted rate, please contact sales manager Jill Barry
directly via phone, 617-532-6282, or email, [email protected].
Note that the last day to make reservations at the discounted rate
is August 2, 2004. For more information, visit the hotel's web site
at www.bestwestern.com/prop_22028 or Best Western's web site at
www.bestwestern.com.
Please feel free to contact the organizers with any relevant questions.
The North American Stata Users Group Meeting Organizing Committee
Elizabeth Allred Kit Baum Nicholas J. Cox
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Rich Goldstein Peter A. Lachenbruch Marcello Pagano
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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