First North American Stata Users' Group Meeting

Preliminary Program

Revised : Wed Jan 24 13:29:10 2001

Session 1, 12 March 2001, 0900-1030
Estimation and fitting

 
Fitting Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) Regression Models in Stata
      Nicholas Horton, Boston University School of Public Health horton@bu.edu
 
The Quadratic Assignment Procedure (QAP)
      William Simpson, Harvard Business School wsimpson@hbs.edu
 
The Normal Mixture Decomposition
      Stanislav Kolenikov, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill skolenik@unc.edu

Session 2, 12 March 2001, 1100-1200
Model testing

 
Post-estimation commands for regression models for categorical and count outcomes
      Jeremy Freese, University of Wisconsin jfreese@ssc.wisc.edu
      J. Scott Long, University of Indiana jslong@indiana.edu
 
Testing for omitted variables
      Jeroen Weesie, Utrecht University J.Weesie@fss.uu.nl

Session 3, 12 March 2001, 1330-1500
Survey and multilevel data analysis

 
Computing Variances from Data with Complex Sampling Designs: A Comparison of Stata and SPSS
      Alicia C. Dowd, Univ. Mass. Boston, Graduate College of Education alicia.dowd@umb.edu
      Michael B. Duggan, Suffolk University mduggan@admin.suffolk.edu
 
svytabs: A program for producing complex survey tables
      Michael Blasnik, Blasnik & Associates mblasnik@110.net
 
Simple Cases of Multi-Level Models
      Rich Goldstein, richgold@ix.netcom.com

Session 4, 12 March 2001, 1530-1715
Longitudinal data analysis

 
Date and Time Tags for Filenames in WinXX
      Harriet E Griesinger, Wellesley Child Care Research Partnership hgriesin@Wellesley.edu
 
Efficient Management of Multi-Frequency Panel Data with Stata
      Christopher F Baum, Boston College baum@bc.edu
 
Challenges of Creating and Working with Cross-Year-Family-Individual Files: An Example from the PSID data set
      Petia Petrova, Boston College petrova@bc.edu
 
Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Stata, Splus and SAS
      Rino Bellocco, Karolinska Institutet Rino.Bellocco@mep.ki.se

Session 5, 13 March 2001, 0900-1030
Assorted topics

 
Stata Teaching Tools
      Phil Ender, UCLA Department of Education ender@ucla.edu
 
Three-Valued Logic Operations in Stata
      David Kantor, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University dkantor@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
 
Analysing circular data in Stata
      Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

Session 6, 13 March 2001, 1100-1200

 
Panel data analysis in Stata: An extended example
      David Drukker, Stata Corporation ddrukker@stata.com

Session 7, 13 March 2001, 1330-1530

 
The evolving nature of the Stata Technical Bulletin
      H.Joseph Newton, Texas A & M University stb@stata.com
 
Report to Users
      William W. Gould, Stata Corporation wwg@stata.com

Session 8, 13 March 2001, 1600-1700

 
Wishes and grumbles
      Christopher F Baum (moderator), Boston College and RePEc baum@bc.edu