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Second Announcement and Call for Presentations

19th UK Stata User Group meeting
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Dates: Thursday 12 September and Friday 13 September 2013
Venue: Cass Business School 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
(just off Finsbury Square in the City of London)

You are warmly invited to attend the 19th Stata User Group meeting!

Offers of presentations are also being sought.

Please email the scientific organisers if you are interested in
presenting, sending an abstract and indicating whether you wish to
give:

(i) a 20 min talk (followed by 10 min discussion),
(ii) a 10 min talk (5 min discussion), or
(iii) a longer review or tutorial (about an hour).

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 May 2013. The final
programme will be announced before the end of July 2013.

Please see below for further information about the User Meeting,
including registration fees and reduced rates for paper presenters and
students.

Scientific organisers:

Stephen Jenkins <[log in to unmask]>, and Roger Newson
<[log in to unmask]>

Logistics organised by Timberlake Consultants, distributors of Stata
in the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the Middle
East. Visit the Timberlake website at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/Stata/?id=412

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The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata users
meetings. The meeting is open to all interested. In past years
participants were from Britain, Ireland, other European countries,
USA, Australia. StataCorp will be represented.

Presentation topics might include:

- discussion of user-written Stata programs,
- case studies of research or teaching using Stata,
- discussions of data management problems,
- reviews of analytical issues,
- surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields, etc.

The meeting will include the usual "wishes and grumbles" session at
which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers, and (at
additional cost) the option of an informal meal at a London restaurant
on the Thursday evening.

Timberlake Consultants generously sponsors registration fee waivers
for presentations (one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of
number of authors involved).  Timberlake will also pay a small fee to
a presenter of a longer review or tutorial paper. Presenters need to
register.

Registration fees: Non-students - attendance to both days £96.00
including VAT Non-students - attendance to one day only £66.00
including VAT Students - attendance to both days £66.00 including VAT
Students - attendance to one day only £48.00 including VAT Dinner
(optional) £36.00 including VAT

The scientific organisers look forward to hearing from you with
presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential
contribution. The submission deadline is 31 May 2013. Confirmation of
the programme, and details of how to register, will be circulated
before the end of July 2013.

Please send abstracts in plain text format, preferably without
including mathematical notation. Please give a title, name and
affiliation of the presenter, and abstract text of no more than
approximately 300 words.

Potential visitors to London might like to know that, by British
standards, September is usually relatively dry and warm.

Please contact us before 31 May 2013, and preferably sooner!

Stephen Jenkins			Roger Newson <[log in to unmask]>
<[log in to unmask]>

This Call is also available at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/Stata/?id=486
and
http://stata.com/meeting/uk13/

For proceedings of previous Stata Users Group meetings so far, both in
London and elsewhere, visit http://stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html

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-- 
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Royal Brompton Campus
Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
1B Manresa Road
London SW3 6LR
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
Departmental Web page:
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/

Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.

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