14th London Stata Users' Meeting

CALL FOR PAPERS

8 - 9 September 2008
Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TZ, UK
(just off Finsbury Square in the City of London)

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The next London Stata Users' meeting will be held at Cass Business School, City University on 10-11 September 2007.The programme will be announced later. The registration fees will be the same as for 2007: £75.00 for both days; £50 for one day. (There are reduced rates for paper presenters: see below)

Scientific organisers: 

• Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> and
• Patrick Royston <patrick.royston@ctu.mrc.ac.uk>

Logistics:

Logistics are organised by Timberlake Consultants, distributors of Stata in the UK , Ireland , Spain , Portugal , Poland and Brazil . Visit their 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 were from Britain , Ireland , other European countries, USA , and Australia . StataCorp will be represented.

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 in presenting a paper, indicating whether you wish to give:

1. a 20 min talk (followed by 10 min discussion)
2. a 10 min talk (5 min discussion), or
3. 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) 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). They will also pay a small fee to a presenter of a longer review or tutorial paper.

We look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution.  Confirmation of the programme, cost and venue, and details of how to register will be circulated in the Summer of 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 for papers.    

Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> and Patrick Royston <patrick.royston@ctu.mrc.ac.uk>

For records of most of the Stata User Group meetings so far, both in London and elsewhere, visit http://www.stata.com/support/meeting/.]