Dear all,
Below is the programme for the the 1st Dublin Stata User Group meeting (22nd
May) to be held in Trinity College Dublin. As you will see, we have an
excellent line-up of presentations.
If you are interested in attending, please contact:
Alan Kelly
(Tel: +353 1-6081387/2177; email: [email protected]) or
Ronan Conroy
(Tel: +353 1-402 2431; email: [email protected]) or
Ana Timberlake
(tel: 44 (0)208 6973377 email: [email protected])
Do please register in advance (contact details below programme).
Programme
9.30 Registration
9.50 Welcome - Alan Kelly & Ronan Conroy
10.00 Checking for support in propensity score matching
Arnaud Chevalier, University College Dublin
10.20 Graphics (and numerics) for comparison
Nick Cox (University of Durham)
10.40 Testing effects of multiple genes in STATA: tests of stratification
and of cumulative effects of multiple genes.
Cliona Molony, Tony Fitzgerald, Denis Shields (presenting author)
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
11.00 Coffee
11.20 Text analysis using Stata: The Wordscoring Approach to Content
Analysis Using Words as Data
Kenneth Benoit, Political Science, Trinity College Dublin
11.40 Handling Panel Data
Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick
12.00 Use of Stata for Analysing outcomes in solid organ transplantation
Patrick Kelly, Beaumont Hospital
12.20 A sting in the tail(s) - detecting and dealing with censored data
Ronan Conroy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
12.40 Capture-Recapture models - issues in selecting a 'best' model.
Alan Kelly, Trinity College Dublin
Lunch
14.00 Generalised linear models for prediction: some principles, some
programs and some practice
Nicholas J. Cox (University of Durham)
14.45 From the Stata Technical Bulletin to the Stata Journal
Joe Newton (Texas A and M) and Nicholas J. Cox (University of Durham)
15.00 On dynamically linked libraries (DLL's) in Stata
Roberto G. Gutierrez and Chinh Nguyen, StataCorp.
16.00 Report to Users
Bill Gould, StataCorp.
16.40 Discussion: Wishes and grumbles
Close of meeting
19.30 Conference meal (optional)
Registration fee is Euro 35.25 (inclusive of VAT; cheques to Timberlake
Consultants Ltd.) and includes a light luncheon and tea/coffee.
Contacts:
Alan Kelly (Tel: 01-6081387/2177; email: [email protected]) and Ronan Conroy
(Tel: 01-402 2431; email: [email protected]) or Ana Timberlake of Timberlake
Consultants (http://www.timberlake.co.uk).
Venue:
The Hamilton Building is located to the rear of Trinity College (please see:
http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/tcd_east.html. Entrance from either Lincoln Gate or
through postern gate opposite Pearse DART Station. The Maxwell Theatre is
on the 1st Floor of the Hamilton. Please note that no parking is available
on TCD grounds.
Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
Lecturer in Biostatistics
Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764)
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