=============================================================== Second Call for Presentations 15th UK Stata User Group meeting ----------------------------------------------------------- Dates: Thursday 10 September and Friday 11 September 2009 Venue: Cass Business School 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK (just off Finsbury Square in the City of London) Put the dates in your diary now to ensure you can participate. Better still, if you haven't already done so, submit a proposal for presentation. Already booked to give tutorials are Ben Jann ("Recent developments in output processing"), and Paul Lambert and Patrick Royston ("Flexible parametric alternatives to the Cox model"). Yulia Marchenko from StataCorp will also make a presentation. Bill Gould, chief developer and president of StataCorp, will also be present and host the Wishes and Grumbles session. Many Statalist stalwarts including Kit Baum, Maarten Buis, Nick Cox, and Martin Weiss are intending to be there too -- come and see what they look like and hear them in person. Read on for further details. The complete programme will be announced later (see below). The registration fees will be the same as for 2008: £75.00 for both days; £50 for one day. (There are reduced rates for paper presenters: see below.) 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, and Spain. (Visit the Timberlake website at http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/index.html.) 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, and 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. Please email the scientific organisers if you are interested, 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 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). They will also pay a small fee to a presenter of a longer review or tutorial paper. The scientific organisers look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution. Confirmation of the programme, cost and venue, and details of how to register, will be circulated in June 2009. 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 2009, and preferably sooner! Stephen Jenkins Roger Newson <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> [For proceedings of previous Stata Users Group meetings so far, both in London and elsewhere, visit http://stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.] ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Stephen P. Jenkins <[log in to unmask]> Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K. Tel: +44 1206 873374. Fax: +44 1206 873151. http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk Survival Analysis using Stata: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/teaching/degree/stephenj/ec968/ Downloadable papers and software: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pje7.html 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.