2022 Northern European Stata Conference
Oslo, Norway, Wednesday 12 October 2022


First announcement and call for presentations

The 2022 Northern European Stata Conference will be in Oslo, Norway, at Oslo Cancer Cluster Innovation Park on Wednesday 12 October 2022. The conference will start at 09:00, with registration from 08:30, and end at 17:00 (CEST).

This conference provides 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 will attend, and there will be an open panel discussion with StataCorp representatives where you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.

Submissions

Please email the scientific committee if you are interested in giving a presentation. Indicate whether you wish to give
  • a 20 min talk (followed by a 10 min discussion),
  • a 10 min talk (followed by a 5 min discussion),
  • some other presentation.
Abstracts should be sent by email no later than 15 June 2022 to

StataConferenceOslo@kreftregisteret.no

Presentations could focus on a 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, or teaching statistics with Stata
  • use of Stata in specific fields: applications and criticisms
  • software comparisons
  • python integration
No level of sophistication is assumed for presenters or attendees. The scientific organisers look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution. Presenters will be asked to provide the organizers with electronic materials (a copy of the presentation and any programs or datasets, where applicable) so that the materials can be posted on the StataCorp website and in the Stata Users Group RePEc archive.

Scientific committee

Chair Tor Åge Myklebust, Ph.D., Statistician, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway.

Anna L.V. Johansson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway.

Arne Risa Hole, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Universitat Jaume I, Spain.

Morten W. Fagerland, Ph.D. Head of Section for Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway.

Peter Hedström, Ph.D. Professor of Analytical Sociology, Linköping University.

Committee email: StataConferenceOslo@kreftregisteret.no


General chair

Bjarte Aagnes, Cancer Registry of Norway.

E-mail: StataConferenceOslo@kreftregisteret.no
Web: http://www.statanordic.com/stata-conference-2022


Logistics organizers

The conference is jointly organized by The Cancer Registry of Norway – Institute of Population-based Cancer Research, and Metrika Consulting AB the official Stata distributor for Russia and the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Post-conference short course:

Thursday 13 October 2022

Multilevel Mixed Effects Survival Analysis

Michael J. Crowther, PhD
Biostatistician, Karolinska Institutet
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Founder and CEO, Red Door Analytics

Target audience:

Statisticians and researchers with a good working knowledge of the principles and practice of survival analysis, including modelling of survival data.
Aims:
Provide an overview of multilevel mixed effects survival analysis including recurrent event analysis and joint recurrent-terminal event models

Introduce and illustrate tools in Stata for conducting multilevel survival analysis, including both modelling and prediction, with a focus on calculating clinically useful predictions.
web: https://www.kreftregisteret.no/survival-2022 (page available from 1 December)
email: StataConferenceOslo@kreftregisteret.no