It's only April 12, but the time of the third North American Stata Users
Group meeting is rapidly approaching. The meeting will be held August
23-24, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Longwood Galleria
Conference Center.
For DAY 1 of the meeting, the organizing committee seeks 10 or 25-minute
Stata-related presentations, each followed by five minutes of
discussion. Presentations may be on any topic related to the use of
Stata in research or teaching in any field, for example:
Using Stata for modeling and analysis
User-written Stata programs
Case studies using Stata in research or teaching
Using Stata to import and manage data
Using Stata for graphics
Teaching Stata
Teaching statistics with Stata
Surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
Software comparisons
Two training courses are being offered on DAY 2:
Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Models
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, University of California, Berkeley, co-author of
Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and
Structural Equation Models (2004).
Stata Graphics
Vince Wiggins, Vice President of Scientific Development, StataCorp, and
author of Stata's graphics commands. This course will cover in detail
the basic commands and concepts for building high-quality Stata graphs
from scratch. You will learn new approaches to creating graphs,
including organizing and managing your data, and creating custom
schemes.
http://www.stata.com/support/meeting/3nasug/
To register to attend the meetings go to:
http://www.stata.com/support/meeting/3nasug/register.html
To submit an abstract of a presentation (200 words maximum, ASCII text,
no math symbols) go to:
www.repec.org/nasug2004
The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2004. Please indicate the
presentation length you prefer (10 or 25 minutes) when you submit your
abstract. Conference fees will be waived for presenters.
For accommodations at the Best Western Boston--the Inn at Longwood
Medical, go to:
http://www.bestwestern.com/prop_22028
or
http://www.bestwestern.com.
Please contact the organizers with any questions.
The North American Stata Users Group Meeting Organizing Committee:
Elizabeth Allred [[email protected]] Harvard School of Public
Health
Kit Baum [[email protected]] Boston College and RePEc
Nicholas J. Cox [[email protected]] University of Durham
Rich Goldstein [[email protected]] consultant
Tony Lachenbruch [[email protected]] OBE/CBER
Marcello Pagano [[email protected]] Harvard School of Public
Health
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