New Stata Journal 2011_1

The most recent Stata Journal Volume 11, Number 1 is now available for RLAB members in the library under M:\STATA JOURNAL.

Of interest to SERC staff in particular might be the article on Stata utilities for geocoding and generating travel time and travel distance information (A. Ozimek and D. Miles)

The full Journal contents includes:

Articles and Columns
A procedure to tabulate and plot results after flexible modeling of a quantitative Covariate (N. Orsini and S. Greenland)
Nonparametric item response theory using Stata. (J.-B. Hardouin, A. Bonnaud-Antignac, and V. S´ebille)
Visualization of social networks in Stata using multidimensional scaling (R. Corten)
Pointwise confidence intervals for the covariate-adjusted survivor function in the Cox model (M. Cefalu)
Estimation of hurdle models for overdispersed count data (H. Farbmacher)
Right-censored Poisson regression model (R. Raciborski)
Stata utilities for geocoding and generating travel time and travel distance information (A. Ozimek and D. Miles)
eq5d: A command to calculate index values for the EQ-5D quality-of-life instrument. (J. M. Ramos-Go˜ni and O. Rivero-Arias)
Speaking Stata: MMXI and all that: Handling Roman numerals within Stata (N. J. Cox)
Notes and Comments
Stata tip 94: Manipulation of prediction parameters for parametric survival regression models (T. Boswell and R. G. Gutierrez)
Stata tip 95: Estimation of error covariances in a linear model (N. J. Horton)
Stata tip 96: Cube roots (N. J. Cox)
Software Updates

For RLAB staff who do not have access to the library please contact the RLAB data manager.
For staff outside RLAB who wish to access the stata journal please go to http://www.stata-journal.com/

Staff vacancies at the UK Data Archive

The UK Data Archive is seeking to appoint both a Senior Systems and Applications Developer and a Senior Services and Data Repository Developer.

Both Developers will join the Information Development and Programming section of the UK Data Archive. The section provides support for the critical needs of the other divisions in the UK Data Archive, developing, maintaining and updating internal and external systems which are in everyday use.

The Archive is in the process of redeveloping a number of its legacy applications, using new processes, tools and architectures.

The Senior Systems and Applications Developer will manage a small team of developers and have day to day responsibility for the maintenance and redevelopment of legacy applications, plus the development of new applications, ensuring that work is clearly specified, well managed, completed on time and meets the stakeholders’ requirements.

The Senior Services and Data Repository Developer will manage a small team of developers and have day to day responsibility for the design and implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), plus the maintenance and eventual migration to the SOA of legacy databases.

These are a fixed-term posts until 30 September 2012.

Further details: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news-events/news.aspx?id=2651