Program announcement
The next UK Stata Users Group meeting will be held at City University in
London on September 11–12, 2006. This central location is near the
Royal Statistical Society and Thomas Bayes’ burial place.
Stata Users Group meetings started in London in 1995, and there has been a
meeting every year since. These meetings have an international flavor,
usually attracting several visitors from other countries, including the
United States, other European countries, Australia, and New Zealand.
The 12th London meeting features a strong cast of speakers across the
spectrum of the Stata community, including visitors from Australia, Hungary,
Italy, The Netherlands, and the United States. StataCorp will be represented
by David Drukker and Vince Wiggins, who will give three extended tutorials.
Potential visitors to London might like to know that, by British standards,
September is usually relatively dry and warm.
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Dates: |
Monday and Tuesday, September 11–12, 2006
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Venue: |
City University
Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
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Price: |
£75.00 for both days
£50 for one day
£30.00 for dinner (optional)
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Register online
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Program
Monday, September 11
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8:45–9:25 |
Registration and coffee/tea
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9:25–9:30 |
Introduction and welcome
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9:30–11:00 |
Automating the production of large reports from Stata
Ross Harris
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
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Automatic generation of documents
Rosa Gini and Jacopo Pasquini
Regional Agency for Public Health of
Tuscany
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Marginal effects and extending the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition
for nonlinear models
Tamás Bartus
Institute of Sociology and Social Policy,
Corvinus University, Budapest
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee/tea
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11:30–12:50 |
A comparison analysis of dynamic panel-data estimators in the
presence of endogenous regressors
Giovanni S. F. Bruno
Istituto di Economia Politica, Università Bocconi,
Milan
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On the central role of Somers’ D
Roger Newson
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College
London
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Consistency checking with assertk
Krishnan Bhaskaran, Hannah Green
MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
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12:50–2:00 |
Lunch
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2:00–3:30 |
Variance estimation for quantile group shares, cumulative shares, and
Gini coefficient
Stephen P. Jenkins
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
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Econometric analysis of panel data using Stata
David M. Drukker
StataCorp, College Station, TX
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3:30–4:00 |
Coffee/tea
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4:00–5:15 |
Graphs for all seasons
Nicholas J. Cox
Durham University
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Scheming your way to consistent graphs
Vincent L. Wiggins
StataCorp, College Station, TX
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5:15 |
Close
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Conference dinner (optional)
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Tuesday, September 12
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9:30–11:00 |
Estimating and modeling the proportion cured of disease in
population-based cancer studies
Paul C. Lambert
Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester
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Two postestimation commands for assessing confounding effects in
medical and epidemiological studies
Zhiqiang Wang
Centre for Chronic Diseases, School of Medicine,
University of Queensland
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Problems with infinite solutions in logistic regression
Ian White
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee/tea
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11:30–12:45 |
Visualizing and analyzing time to event data:
Lifting the veil of censoring
Patrick Royston
MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
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Modeling for response variables that are proportions
Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam
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12:45–2:00 |
Lunch
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2:00–3:30 |
A brief introduction to Mata
David M. Drukker
StataCorp, College Station, TX
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Time-series filtering techniques in Stata
Kit Baum
Department of Economics, Boston College
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3:30–4:00 |
Coffee/tea
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4:00–5:15 |
Report to users, followed by Wishes and grumbles
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Registration and accommodations
The cost is £75.00 for both days or £50 for one day. There will
be an optional dinner for an additional £30.00.
To enroll, visit
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/Request_forms/stataug_form.html and
fill out the registration form by September 6, 2006.
For assistance in finding accommodations, or for more information, contact
info@timberlake.co.uk.
Scientific organizers
The meeting’s scientific program will be organized by
Nick Cox from Durham University
(n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk)
and
Patrick Royston from the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
(patrick.royston@ctu.mrc.ac.uk).
Logistics organizers
The meeting’s logistic arrangements are organized by
Timberlake Consultants,
the distributors of Stata in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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