The PRI library has received announcement of a post-graduate fellowship with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

The PRI Library has received announcement of ELS-NELS training set for June 16-18 and July 21-23 in Washington, DC.

Starting April 7, the new NIH Public Access Policy requires all final peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funds to be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.

The NIH is soliciting comments on the implementation of the policy. See the Request for Information to submit a comment or read those already submitted. Comments will be accepted until May 31.

The PRI Library has received announcement of the C2S Summer Biomarkers Institute, to be held June 9-11 at the Evanston, IL campus of the Northwestern University.

NCHS has released the following new and updated NHANES data:

2005-2006 Data (New)
- Questionnaires: Hospital Utilization and Access to Care
- Labs: Hepatitis B, C and D

2003-2004 Data (New)
- Exam: Food Frequency Questionnaire and Food Frequency Questionnaire - DietCalc Output
- Lab: Surplus Sera: Antibody to Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)

Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXX 1999-2004)

PRI researchers may request the above data from the Data Archivist.

The new NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect on April 7. Be prepared with this guide from the library at Penn State Hershey.

The latest issue (volume 8, number 1) of The Stata Journal is now available online to PRI affiliates. To access the journal, log in with your POP username and password.

Contents of this issue:

Articles and Columns

• Editorial announcements
• metan: fixed– and random–effects meta–analysis
• A tool for deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analysis of epidemiologic studies
• A new framework for managing and analyzing multiply imputed data in Stata
• Tests for unbalanced error–components models under local misspecification
• fuzzy: A program for performing qualitative comparative analyses (QCA) in Stata
• Speaking Stata: Spineplots and their kin
• Review of Applied Health Economics by Jones, Rice, Bago d’Uva, and Balia
• Review of Event History Analysis with Stata by Blossfeld, Golsch, and Rohwer

Notes and Comments

• Stata tip 56: Writing parameterized text files
• Stata tip 57: How to reinstall Stata
• Stata tip 58: nl is not just for nonlinear models
• Stata tip 59: Plotting on any transformed scale

Software Updates

The PRI Library has received announcement of a National Survey of Family Growth workshop at the PAA meeting in New Orleans on April 17, 2008 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

The Version H HRS/RAND data is now available in SodaPop and PopNet.

The files incorporates data from 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004 final releases, and 2006 early release of HRS data. As well as additional co-horts. For more information, please see the HRS website page.