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When July 31–August 1, 2014
Where Omni Parker House
60 School Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Who Stata 13 developers
You and Stata users from around the world

Come join us in historic Boston, home to Fenway Park and the Harvard Museum of Natural History, for two days of networking and Stata exploration. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with colleagues and fellow researchers as well as Stata developers.


A preliminary selection of community-contributed talks:

Profile analysis
Phil Ender
UCLA Statistical Consulting Group
Optimal interval design for phase I oncology clinical trials
Bryan Fellman
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Using Stata for educational accountability and compliance reporting
Billy Buchanan
Mississippi Department of Education
Computer simulation of patient flow through an operating suite
David Clark
Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine
Classification using random forests in Stata and R
Linden McBride
Cornell University
Making interactive online visualizations with stata2leaflet and stata2d3
Robert Grant
St George’s Medical School, University of London
A midas retouch regarding diagnostic meta-analysis
Ben Dwamena
University of Michigan
Mata routines for solution of nonlinear systems using interval methods
Matthew Baker
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
bipolate: A Stata command for bivariate interpolation with particular application to 3D graphing
Joseph Canner
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Stata hybrids: Updates and ideas
James Fiedler
Universities Space Research Association
ctgov: A suite of Stata commands for reporting trial results to ClinicalTrials.gov
Phil Schumm
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago

StataCorp will also be represented:

Transformation survival models
Yulia Marchenko
StataCorp LP
Estimating average treatment effects from observational data using teffects
David Drukker
StataCorp LP

The popular Wishes and Grumbles and Report to users will also be given.

Come early, stay late

Whether you stay for the JSM or just to relax, be sure to enjoy what Boston has to offer. Take a cruise in Boston Harbor, walk the Freedom Trail, visit Fenway Park, and have a bowl of “chowdah”. Boston is a great city with plenty to do and see.

Scientific committee

  • Stephen Soldz (Chair)
    Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
  • Kit Baum
    Boston College
  • Marcello Pagano
    Harvard University

Accommodations

The Omni Parker House is offering a special rate of $229 per night for Stata Conference attendees staying between July 29 and August 2, 2014. Book by June 30 to receive the special rate.

Reserve your room now.

Omni Parker House
60 School Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
(617) 227-8600

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