2007 West Coast Stata Users Group meeting

Dates:	Thursday, October 25, and Friday, October 26, 2007
Venue:	Marina del Rey Hotel 13534 Bali Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Price:	Price Student price Day 1: Users Group meeting $85 $35 Day 2: Invited presentations $95 $35 Both days: Users Group meeting and invited presentations $150 $50 Day 1: Optional dinner at C & O Cucina (Italian) $35 $35 Register now (Deadline: October 10, 2007)

Announcement and call for presentations

The first West Coast (of the United States) Stata Users Group meeting will be held October 25 and 26, 2007, at Marina del Rey Hotel, located 10 minutes from Los Angeles International Airport at water’s edge.

Stata Users Group meetings started in Britain in 1995 and have spread to Italy, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Australia, and the East Coast. Talks are intended to be accessible to a general audience with mixed levels of expertise in Stata and statistics. Stata developers will also attend, both to present new Stata features and to take notes during the popular “Wishes and grumbles” session. We hope you will consider joining the meeting as a presenter or an attendee.

Submission information

We encourage submission on any topic to do with the use of Stata in research, teaching, or any other field such as the following:

• Using Stata for modeling and analysis
• User-written Stata programs
• Case studies of research or teaching using Stata
• Using Stata to import and manage data
• Teaching Stata
• Teaching statistics with Stata
• Surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
• Software comparisons

Please indicate whether you wish to give a

• 10-minute talk (followed by a 5-minute discussion),
• 20-minute talk (followed by a 10-minute discussion), or
• 45-minute review or tutorial (followed by a 10-minute discussion).

Please submit an abstract and contact information (name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and fax and phone numbers) online at http://repec.org/wcsug2007/submission.php by September 14, 2007. The abstract should be no longer than 200 words. You should also indicate the length of presentation you have in mind. Members of the scientific organizing committee will review abstracts. Conference fees will be waived for presenters.

Presenters will be asked to provide materials related to their talk (slides and programs/datasets, where applicable) in electronic form, preferably before the meetings, to the organizing committee, so that they may be posted on our web site and in the Stata Users Group RePEc archive.

Registration

Click here to register. The registration deadline is October 10, 2007.

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved for StataCorp at the Marina del Rey Hotel for October 23–26, 2007. The discounted group rate is $135.00 per night. Tax is an additional 13%.

To reserve a room, call or email the Marina del Rey Hotel. Please refer to the StataCorp 2007 West Coast Stata Users Group meeting when making your reservation.

Hotel details:

Marina del Rey Hotel
13534 Bali Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Main phone number: 800-882-4000 or 310-301-1000
Fax number: 310-301-8167
Email: reservations@marinadelreyhotel.com
Web site: www.marinadelreyhotel.com
Check in time: 3:00 PM
Check out time: 12:00 PM
General hotel parking: free; valet/overflow parking: $5.00

Special needs:

If you have any special needs (vegetarian, handicapped, etc.), please contact Chris Farrar, cfarrar@stata.com, or Gretchen Farrar, gfarrar@stata.com.

Scientific Organizers

• Colin Cameron, UC Davis
• Xiao Chen, UCLA
• Phil Ender, UCLA
• Estie Hudes, UCSF
• Tony Lachenbruch, Oregon State
• Bill Mason (cochair), UCLA
• Sophia Rabe-Hesketh (cochair), UC Berkeley

Logistics organizers

• Chris Farrar, StataCorp
• Gretchen Farrar, StataCorp

To view proceedings from previous Stata Users Group meetings, see
http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.