Combined Dutch & German meeting: Program announcement
The second meeting of the Dutch Stata users will be held at Maastricht
University on Thursday, May 23, 2002. It will be held in the Auditorium
(Aula), Tongersestraat 53, Maastricht, The Netherlands from 10.15–18.05.
See http://www.unimaas.nl/index_uk.htm?index_uk.htm for information
about the university and see http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/R.Walczuch/route.htm for directions on finding the Tongersestraat location.
This meeting will actually be a Dutch/German/Belgian meeting.
The academic content has been organized by Wim van Putten (putten@stah.azr.nl)
and Alexander Volovics (awol@home.nl).
The backers of the meeting are Smit Consult,
http://www.smitconsult.nl
and DPC, http://www.dpc.de, the distributors
of Stata in the Netherlands and Germany respectively. We are expecting
participants and speakers from Holland, Belgium, and Germany. But everybody,
from anywhere, interested in using Stata is welcome to attend.
Participation at this meeting, coffee and tea included, is free of charge.
Lunch, however, is not free of charge. We do urge you to enroll as quickly as
possible so that we have some idea of the number of people coming.
You can enroll by contacting Nina Brands
(nina@smitconsult.nl) by email or by
writing, phoning, or faxing to
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Smit Consult
Postbus 220
5150 AE Drunen
Netherlands
Tel: (31)(0) 416 378 125
Fax: (31)(0) 416 378 385
German users interested in attending can also contact Dirk Engels
(dirk.engels@dpc.de).
Program
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Thursday, 23 May 2002
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10:15–10:30
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Reception
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10:30–10:35
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Introduction and welcome
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10:35–11:15
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The use of fractional polynomials to model interactions between treatment and
continuous covariates in clinical trials
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Patrick Royston
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MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
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11:15–11:45
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Graphics before and after model fitting
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Nick Cox
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Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
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11:45–12:00
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Transferring data with outdat.ado
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Ulrich Kohler
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Dept. of Social Sciences, Mannheim University
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12:00–12:15
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Coffee
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12:15–12:55
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Multilevel selection models using GLLAMM
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Sophia Rabe–Hesketh
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Inst. of Psychiatry, Kings College, London
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12:55–13:10
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Query your data with QD
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Ron van der Holt
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Dept. of Statistics, AZR, Rotterdam
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13:10–14:05
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Lunch
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14:05–14:20
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How to keep track of your ado-files
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Wilfried Graveland
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Dept. of Statistics, AZR, Rotterdam
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14:20–14:45
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Goodness of fit for quantal response models
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Jeroen Weesie
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Dept. of Sociology, Utrecht University
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14:45–15:15
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Classification and regression tree analysis (CART) with Stata
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Wim van Putten
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Dept. of Statistics, AZR, Rotterdam
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15:15–15:30
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Tea
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15:30–16:10
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Programmable GLM: a collection of case studies
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Roberto Gutierrez
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StataCorp, College Station, TX
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16:10–16:35
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Tools for income mobility analysis in Stata
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Philippe van Kerm
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CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxemburg
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16:35–17:05
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The usefulness of Stata in the analysis of complex veterinary surveys
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Niko Speybroeck
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Dept. of Animal Health, ITG, Antwerpen
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17:05–17:15
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Tea
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17:15–17:55
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Report to users
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William Gould
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StataCorp, College Station, TX
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17:55–18:05
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Discussion: Wishes and grumbles
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18:05
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Tea
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See
http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html
for the proceedings of other user-group meetings.
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