1st Dublin STATA User Group Meeting

22 May 2003
Trinity College, Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building


The 1st Dublin Stata users meeting will be held in Trinity College Dublin on the 22nd May 2003.

The scientific organisers of the meeting are Ronan Conroy and Alan Kelly with logistical help from Timberlake Consultants, the distributors of Stata in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal (http://www.timberlake.co.uk).

The meeting is open to all interested—either existing users of Stata or those considering moving from an alternative statistical package. We are promised attendance by senior management at StataCorp. We hope to arrange an informal get together in a restaurant in the evening for those who are interested.

As this is the first opportunity for Stata users in Ireland to meet locally to discuss and share their experience, we do hope that you will be willing to come along and share your experience.

The fee is 30 Euros + VAT = 35.25 Euros. For further information on registration, please email info@timberlake.co.uk.

Alan Kelly (Tel: 01-6081387/2177; email: akelly@tcd.ie) and Ronan Conroy (Tel: 01-402 2431; email: rconroy@rcsi.ie)


Programme

Thursday, 22nd May 2003

Morning session

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, TCD

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 Interval censored data: detecting and dealing with this issue

Ronan Conroy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

12.40 Capture–recapture models—issues in selecting a 'best' model.

Alan Kelly, Trinity College Dublin

Afternoon session

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&M University, 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

William Gould, StataCorp

16.40 Discussion: Wishes and grumbles

Close of meeting

19.30 Evening meal (optional)