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8th UK Stata users meeting, London, 20-21 May 2002
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The 8th Stata users meeting to be held in London will be held at the
Royal Statistical Society (http://www.rss.org.uk) on Monday and Tuesday
20th and 21st May 2002.
The content of the meeting has been organised by Nicholas J. Cox,
University of Durham ([log in to unmask]) and Patrick Royston, MRC
Clinical Trials Unit ([log in to unmask]). The logistics are
being organised by Timberlake Consultants (http://www.timberlake.co.uk),
the distributors of Stata in the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal.
The meeting is open to all interested. In past years people have
attended not only from Britain, Ireland, and other European countries,
but also from the USA, Australia, and elsewhere. StataCorp will be
represented. There will be the usual `wishes and grumbles' session at
which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. There will also be
an optional informal meal at a London restaurant on Monday evening.
The cost of the meeting is £69.50 + VAT for both days or £49.50 + VAT
for one day only. This includes lunch, coffee and tea. For
further information on registration, please contact [log in to unmask]
Detailed programme:
Monday 20th
0930 Registration and coffee/tea
1000 Introduction and welcome
1005 Roger Newson
(Department of Public Health Medicine, King's College, London)
Creating plots and tables of estimation results using -parmest- and friends
1040 Harland Austin (Department of Epidemiology, Emory University)
Simulation studies comparing different genetic methodologies using Stata
1115 Coffee
1145 Nick Cox (Department of Geography, University of Durham)
Graphics before and after model fitting
1220 Suzanna Vidmar, Kylie Hesketh and John Carlin
(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and University of Melbourne)
Standardising anthropometric measures in children and adolescents with
new -egen- functions
1255 Lunch
1405 Matthew Barnes (Office for National Statistics)
Using Stata at the Office for National Statistics: an overview
1440 Ralf Martin and Chiara Criscuolo
(Office for National Statistics, CeRiBA and London School of Economics)
A note on ownership and productivity in UK businesses
1515 Joe Newton (Department of Statistics, Texas A and M University)
and Nick Cox (Department of Geography, University of Durham)
The Stata Bulletin and the Stata Journal: editors' report
1530 Tea
1600 Bobby Gutierrez (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX)
Programmable GLM: a collection of case studies
1715 Close
Tuesday 21st
0930 James Carpenter
(Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
and Patrick Royston (MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London)
BCa bootstrap confidence intervals
1005 Patrick Royston (MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London)
and Wilhelm Sauerbrei (IMBI, University Hospital of Freiburg)
The use of fractional polynomials to model interactions between treatment
and continuous covariates in clinical trials
1040 Mohamed Ali
(Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London School of
Hygience and Tropical Medicine)
and Abdel Babiker (MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London)
Applying the Cox proportional hazard regression model to competing risks
1115 Coffee
1145 Ian White, Chris Frost and Shoji Tokunaga
(MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge)
Adjusting for measurement error in explanatory variables
1220 Michael Hills
Further steps towards a graphical interface for making tables and
estimating effects
1300 Lunch
1400 Nick Cox (Department of Geography, University of Durham)
How to face lists with -for-titude (Tutorial)
1435 Bill Gould (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX)
Report to users
1530 Tea
1600 Discussion: Wishes and grumbles
1715 Close
The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata users
meetings. Records of most of the meetings so far, both in London and
elsewhere, can be accessed via
http://www.stata.com/support/meeting/
Nick
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