First Italian Stata Users Group meeting

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Date: Monday, October 25, 2004   Venue: Hotel Artemide via Nazionale, 22 00184 Roma Italy   Cost: 30,00 Euros per person, including lunch and refreshments   See Registration and accommodations for more details.

The first Italian Stata Users Group meeting will be held on October 25, 2004 in Rome.

The objective of the meeting is to provide Stata users working in different research areas with the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new applications of the software.

The content of the meeting is being organized by Una–Louise Bell, (TStat S.r.l.), Rino Bellocco (Karolinska Institutet), Giovanni Capelli (Universitą degli Studi di Cassino), and Marcello Pagano (Harvard School of Public Health).

Notes on the program The meeting will be organized into four sessions. Each session will include three presentations of approximately 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The preliminary program can be viewed below. Abstracts will be posted at a later date.

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Programme 0900 – 0930 Registration 0930 – 1100 I Session — User-written Commands and Routines Sopravvivenza Attesa e Relativa Vincenzo Coviello Estimation of Average Causal Effects of Dichotomous Treatments by Propensity Score Weighting and Regression Adjustment Maurizio Pisati Applied Game Theory Nicola Orsini, Debora Rizzuto e Nicola Nante 1100 – 1130 Coffee break 1130 – 1300 II Session — Exploiting the Potential of Stata 8 Meta Analysis with Stata: The Example of Drug Eluting Stents in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Ciro Indolfi, Maria Pavia e Italo F. Angelillo Simple Thematic Mapping with Stata Maurizio Pisati Output di Stata in mark-up languages: generazione automatica di tabelle in Latex e HTML Rosa Gini e Jacopo Pasquini Utilizzo del software statistico STATA per il controllo dei File SIO della Regione Lazio Tommasangelo Petitti 1300 – 1400 Lunch 1400 – 1530 III Session Graphics in Stata 8 Vince Wiggins, StataCorp 1530 – 1545 Coffee break 1545 – 1715 IV Session — Applied Works Using Stata I Temporary Work Agencies in Italy: A Spring Board Towards Permanent Employment? Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli e Tommaso Nannicini Estimation, Inference and Monte Carlo Analysis in Dynamic Panel Data Models with a Small Number of Individuals Giovanni S.F. Bruno Analysis of Breast Cancer Survival Data with Missing Information on the Stage of the Disease and the Cause of Death Rino Bellocco and Nicola Orsini 1715 – 1845 V Session — Applied Works Using Stata II What Kind of Relationship Between Firm Size and Innovation? The Case of Lazio's High Tech Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises? A. Federici, L. Mercuri e B. Bedusa Gli incidenti stradali dopo l'introduzione della patente a punti: analisi della serie temporale dei feriti Alessio Pitidis, Giulia Viola, Marco Giustini L'interpretazione del tasso regionale di irregolaritą del lavoro come proxy dell'economia sommersa in Italia: modelli statistici e stimatori panel G. Alleva e F. Pericolini

Registration and accommodations The cost to attend is 30,00 Euros. This fee covers lunch and refreshments. An optional dinner, at extra cost, will be held on Monday evening at a restaurant to be named at a later date. The meeting is being organized by TStat S.r.l (www.tstat.it), the certified distributor of Stata in Italy. For further information on registration and assistance with accommodations, please contact Lorena Romeo at Tstat: Lorena Romeo Tstat S.r.l. via Baden Powell, 8 67039 Sulmona AQ Italy Tel: +39-0864-210101 Fax: +39-0864-206014 Email: lorena@tstat.it The conference venue is Hotel Artemide via Nazionale, 22 00184 Roma Italy We look forward to seeing you in Italy on October 25th.

The Italian Stata Users Group Meeting Organizing Committee
Una–Louise Bell tstat@tstat.it TStat S.r.l	Rino Bellocco rino.bellocco@mep.ki.se Karolinska Institutet
Giovanni Capelli g.capelli@unicas.it Università degli Studi di Cassino	Marcello Pagano pagano@biostat.harvard.edu Harvard School of Public Health