2018 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group Meeting
Oslo, Norway, Wednesday September 12, 2018.
Official meeting page: http://www.statanordic.com/sug2018
2nd Announcement and call for presentations
The 2018 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting will be held in Oslo, Norway at Oslo Cancer Cluster Innovation Park on Wednesday September 12. The conference starts at 09.00 CET, with registration from 08.30 CET, and it ends at 17.00 CET.
This meeting will provide Stata users the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new applications of Stata. Anyone interested in using Stata is welcome. Representatives from StataCorp -- Jeff Pitblado, Executive Director of Statistical Software and Chuck Huber, Senior Statistician -- will attend, and there will be the usual "Wishes and grumbles" session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.
Registration
To register for the meeting, please send an email to Metrika with your name, affiliation, and contact details: [email protected].
Submissions
Please email the scientific committee if you are interested in giving a presentation. Indicate whether you want to give
- a 20 min talk (followed by a 10 min discussion),
- a 10 min talk (followed by a 5 min discussion), or
- some other presentation.
Abstracts should be sent by email to the scientific committee no later than June 15, but preferably earlier.
Presentations can focus on any topic of interest, including but not limited to:
- using Stata for modeling and analysis
- user-written Stata programs
- using Stata for data management
- using Stata for graphics
- teaching Stata
- teaching statistics with Stata
- surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
- software comparisons
No specific level of sophistication is assumed for presenters or attendees. The scientific committee looks forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution.
Scientific committee
Coordinator: Yngvar Nilssen, Statistician, The Cancer Registry of Norway – Institute of Population-based Cancer Research.
Arne Risa Hole, Reader in Economics, University of Sheffield.
Morten Wang Fagerland, Biostatistician, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), Oslo University Hospital.
Øyvind Wiborg, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo.
Peter Hedström, Professor, Institute of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University.
Committee email: [email protected]
Logistics organizers
The meeting is jointly organized by The Cancer Registry of Norway – Institute of Population-based Cancer Research and Metrika Consulting AB. Metrika is the distributor of Stata in the Nordic and Baltic regions. For further information, please visit www.statanordic.com or contact them at [email protected].
Meeting coordinators:
Bjarte Aagnes, Cancer Registry of Norway.
Ronnie Babigumira, Cancer Registry of Norway.
email: [email protected]
web : http://www.statanordic.com/sug2018
Post-conference course:
Parametric competing risks and multistate models
Thursday September 13, 2018, following the 2018 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group Meeting, Michael J. Crowther, Lecturer in Biostatistic, University of Leicester, will give a one day course on parametric competing risks and multistate models
The course is aimed at statisticians and epidemiologists with an interest in modelling survival data.
Multistate models are increasingly being used to model complex disease profiles. By modeling transitions between disease states, accounting for competing events at each transition, we can gain an improved understanding of patients' prognoses and how risk factors impact them over the whole disease pathway.
Course page: https://www.kreftregisteret.no/MSM2018
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