First Announcement and Call for Papers
14th UK Stata Users Meeting
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Dates: Monday 8 September and Tuesday 9 September 2008
Venue: Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
(just off Finsbury Square in the City of London)
The registration fees will be the same as for 2007:
GBP75 for both days; GBP50 for one day.
(There are reduced rates for paper presenters: see below.)
Scientific organisers:
Nick Cox <[email protected]> and Patrick Royston
<[email protected]>.
Logistics organised by Timberlake Consultants,
distributors of Stata in the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and
Spain.
(Visit the Timberlake website at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk/stata/index.html.)
The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata users
meetings.
The meeting is open to all interested. In past years participants have
come from Britain, Ireland, other European countries, USA, and
Australia.
StataCorp will be represented.
[For records of most of the Stata users meetings so far,
both in London and elsewhere, visit
http://www.stata.com/support/meeting/.]
Presentation topics might include:
- discussion of user-written Stata programs,
- case studies of research or teaching using Stata,
- discussions of data management problems,
- reviews of analytical issues,
- surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields, etc.
Please email the organizers if you are interested, indicating whether
you wish to give:
(i) a 20 min talk (followed by 10 min discussion),
(ii) a 10 min talk (5 min discussion), or
(iii) a longer review or tutorial (about an hour).
The meeting will include the usual "wishes and grumbles" session at
which you may air
your thoughts to Stata developers, and (at additional cost) the option
of an informal
meal at a London restaurant on Monday evening.
Timberlake Consultants generously sponsors registration fee waivers for
presentations
(one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of number of authors
involved).
We look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to
discuss the
suitability of a potential contribution.
Confirmation of the programme and details of how to register will be
circulated in summer 2008.
Potential visitors to London might like to know that, by British
standards, September is
usually relatively dry and warm.
Please contact us with early offers of papers.
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
Patrick Royston <[email protected]>.
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