Fourth German Stata Users Group meeting

Announcement and program

The fourth German Stata Users Group meeting will be held at the University of Mannheim on Friday, 31 March 2006. The meeting is open to all interested, and we encourage Stata users from neighboring countries to join us. StataCorp will be represented. The conference will be conducted in English because of the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers. There will be a “wishes and grumbles” session, where you can share your thoughts with Stata developers. There will also be an optional informal meal at a Mannheim restaurant on Friday evening, at additional cost. The conference venue has changed to Rm. W 117, located in the Schloss. Click here for a map of the University of Mannheim's campus. From the number of windows, the Schloss of Mannheim is the biggest palace in Europe. Even if you don’t trust the indicator, believe us: the Schloss is big. We therefore ask you to plan ample time. Finding the Schloss in Mannheim is easy, but finding the room within the Schloss can be hard. See http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html for the proceedings of other Stata Users Group meetings.

Date: Friday, 31 March 2006 Venue: University of Mannheim Room W 117 68131 Mannheim Germany Cost: Regular: 20 Euro Student: 10 Euro Optional dinner: 20 Euro

Program March 31 08:45 Registration and coffee/tea 09:15 Welcome Johannes Giesecke University of Mannheim 09:30 Resultssets, resultsspreadsheets, and resultsplots in Stata Roger Newson Imperial College London 10:20 Coffee GLLAMM session 10:30 Intervention evaluation using gllamm Andrew Pickles University of Manchester 11:20 Estimating IRT models with gllamm Herbert Matschinger University of Leipzig General statistics 11:50 Variance estimation for generalized entropy and Atkinson inequality between indices: the complex survey data case Martin Biewen University of Frankfurt 12:20 Lunch 13:30 Linear mixed models in Stata Roberto Gutierrez StataCorp User-written programs 14:20 Implementing restricted least squares in linear models J. Haisken-DeNew RWI Essen 14:50 Sequence analysis using Stata Christian Brzinsky-Fay and Ulrich Kohler WZB 15:30 Coffee 15:40 New tools for evaluating the results of cluster analyses Hildegard Schaeper HIS Toward an open wish list to StataCorp 16:10 Optimal large package administration for Stata Markus Hahn RWI Essen 17:10 Coffee 17:20 Report to users Alan Riley StataCorp 17:50 Wishes and Grumbles 18:30 End of meeting

Accommodations and fees Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodations. There will be a small conference fee (regular, 20 Euro; students, 10 Euro) to cover costs for coffee, tea, and luncheons. There will also be an optional informal dinner at a Mannheim restaurant on Friday evening (cost,: 20 Euro). Registration You can enroll by contacting Anke Mrosek by email or by writing, phoning, or faxing to Anke Mrosek Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH Kieler Str. 17 42697 Solingen Tel: +49 (0) 212 260 66-24 Fax: +49 (0) 212 260 66-66 anke.mrosek@dpc.de

© University of Mannheim

Organizers

The academic program of the meeting is being organized by

Johannes Giesecke, University of Mannheim
giesecke@rumms.uni-mannheim.de

Ulrich Kohler, WZB
kohler@wz-berlin.de

Fred Ramb, Deutsche Bundesbank
fred.ramb@bundesbank.de

Sponsors

The conference is sponsored and organized by Dittrich & Partner (http://www.dpc.de), the distributor of Stata in several countries, including Germany, Austria, and Hungary.