Subject to possible minor tinkering, here is the programme for the 14th
London Stata users' meeting. Registration remains open, so this is a
good time to book that last-minute holiday [vacation] centred on what
you love best, thinking Stata.
See <http://www.stata.com/meeting/uk08/> for logistic details, or go
directly to
<http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/Request_forms/stataug_form.html> for
on-line registration.
Venue: Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TZ
Logistic organizers: Timberlake Consultants
Academic organizers: Nick Cox and Patrick Royston
Monday 8th September
0830-0925 Registration
0925-0930 Welcome
0930-1000
Kenneth I. MacDonald, Nuffield College Oxford
Stata's mishandling of missing data: a problem and two solutions
1000-1040
Vincenzo Verardi, University of Brussels and University of Namur
Robust statistics using Stata
1040-1110
Coffee
1110-1130
Lionel Page & Franz Buscha, University of Westminster
Creating fancy maps and pie charts using Google API charts
1130-1230
Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University
Between tables and graphs: a tutorial
1230-1345
Lunch
1345-1415
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, University of California, Berkeley
Prediction for multilevel models
1415-1515
Roberto G. Gutierrez, StataCorp
Tricks of the trade: Getting the most out of xtmixed
1515-1545
Tea
1545-1615
Roger Newson, Imperial College London
parmest and extensions
1615 on
Brains trust
How do I do that in Stata?
Tuesday 9th September
0930-1000
Yulia Marchenko, StataCorp
Semiparametric analysis of case-control genetic data in the presence of
environmental factors
1000-1030
Ray Boston, University of Pennsylvania
The exploration of metabolic systems using Stata
1030-1100
Coffee
1100-1130
Rodrigo A. Alfaro & Marcelo E. Fuenzalida, Central Bank of Chile
Multiple imputation for household surveys: a comparison of methods
1130-1230
Christopher F. Baum, Boston College
Using Mata to work more effectively with Stata: a tutorial
1230-1345
Lunch
1345-1445
John P. Haisken-De New, RWI Essen
PanelWhiz
1445-1510 Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University
Trilinear plots and some alternatives
1510-1530
Lionel Page, University of Westminster
Bivariate kernel regression
1530-1600
Tea
1600-1630
Maurizio Pisati, University of Milano Bicocca
Tools for spatial density estimation
1630 on
Roberto G. Gutierrez, StataCorp
Report to users
StataCorp developers
Wishes and grumbles
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