6th UK meeting announced
The Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
15 May 2000
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Royal Statistical Society, London
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Date, location, and enrollment
The 6th annual UK Stata user meeting will be held on 15th May 2000 at the
Royal Statistical Society
in London.
All are welcome to attend. Dr. Nicholas J. Cox writes, "`UK' indicates venue,
no more, no less. In previous years, we have enjoyed the participation of
visitors from several countries, not only from Europe, but also spanning from
Australia to the United States. We welcome participation by anybody interested
in the use of Stata, at whatever level."
Enrollment will be handled by
Timberlake Consultants.
Cost: GBP 46 + VAT.
You may enroll by emailing info@timberlake.co.uk or by contacting
them directly:
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Timberlake Consultants Ltd.
Unit B3 Broomsleigh Business Park
Worsley Bridge Road
London SE26 5BN
United Kingdom
+44 (0)208 697 3377 (voice)
+44 (0)208 697 3388 (fax)
Event organisers
The academic content is being organised by Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University
(n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk) and
Patrick Royston, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London (p.royston@ic.ac.uk).
The arrangements are being made by
Timberlake Consultants.
Format
The meetings will include a mixture of paper sessions and open discussions.
Timetable
Program
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15 May 2000
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0925
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Introduction and welcome
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0930
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Fitting complex random effect models with Stata using data augmentation:
an application to the study of male and female fecundability
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David Clayton
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MRC Biostatatistics Unit, Cambridge
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René Ecochard
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DIM Hospices Civils de Lyon
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1000
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Nonparametric regression modelling using MCMC methods
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Gareth Ambler
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Medical Statistics and Evaluation, Imperial College
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1030
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Analysis of cancer survival with Stata
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Andy Sloggett
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Epidemiology and Population Health,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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1100
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Coffee
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1130
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Enhancing access to statistical software tools and datasets
for research and instruction
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Christopher F. Baum
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Economics, Boston College
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1200
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A web-based "Survival Analysis using Stata" course to accompany a lecture course: what is it and was it worth doing?
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Stephen Jenkins
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Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
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1215
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Confidence intervals for rank order statistics: Somers' D, Kendall's tau_a and
their differences
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Roger Newson
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Department of Public Health Sciences, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine
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1230
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Lunch
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1345
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Parametrizing Regression Models
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Michael Hills
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consultant
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David Clayton
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MRC Biostatatistics Unit, Cambridge
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1415
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Quantile plots for right-censored data
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Tony Brady
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Medical Statistics and Evaluation, Imperial College
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Patrick Royston
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MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
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1445
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Plotting and fitting univariate distributions with long or heavy tails
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Nicholas J. Cox
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Geography, University of Durham
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1515
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Tea
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1545
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Report to users
followed by Open discussion: Wishes and grumbles
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William Gould
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StataCorp, College Station, TX
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1715
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Formal end of meeting
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See
http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html for the proceedings of other Stata
user group meetings.
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