2008 Polish Stata Users' Group meeting

TBA
Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, Dluga str 44/50, Warsaw, Poland

The first Stata Users' meeting will be held at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, on the 29th March 2008.The programme will be announced later. Anyone interested in Stata is invited to attend. StataCorp will be represented.

Scientific organisers: 

Logistics:

Timberlake Consultants Polska is the Polish office of Timberlake Consultants—distributors of Stata in the UK , Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Brazil. Visit the Timberlake Polska web site at http://www.timberlake.pl or the main Timberlake web site at http://www.timberlake.co.uk.

Presentation topics might include:
  • discussion of user-written Stata programs,
  • case studies of research or teaching using Stata,
  • discussions of data-management problems,
  • reviews of analytical issues, and
  • surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields, etc.
We would like to put special emphasis on applications of Stata in econometric and time-series modeling and medical applications. Please email the scientific organizers if you are interested in presenting a paper, and indicate whether you wish to give Please email the organizers if you are interested in presenting a paper, indicating whether you wish to give:
  1. a 20 min talk (followed by 10 min discussion)
  2. a 10 min talk (5 min discussion), or
  3. a longer review or tutorial (about an hour).

If you would like to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution, please contact the scientific organizers.

The conference language will be English. However, if there is demand among participants for Polish-language presentations, we will provide special sessions.

Please send submissions to the scientific organizers by February 29, 2008.

The meeting will include the usual “Wishes and grumbles” session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. A detailed program will be announced later.

The organizers look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution. Confirmation of the program will be circulated in February 2008.

For records of most of the Stata User Group meetings so far, both in London and elsewhere, visit http://www.stata.com/support/meeting/.]

Accommodation and registration

There will be a small registration fee, 25 PLN (approximately 8 Euro), to cover lunch costs. Please e-mail info@timberlake.pl to request a registration form.

Potential visitors to Warsaw might like to know that March weather in Poland is highly variable.

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Agenda
(may be subject to minor changes)

09.00 - 09.25

Registration

09.25 - 09.30

Welcome (chairman of the meeting)

09.30 - 10.00

Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University , UK „Graphs for all seasons”

10.00 - 10.30

Jerzy Mycielski, Warsaw University , PL  „Double selection model”

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 - 11.45

Bill Gould, Stata Corp., US „Mata and Stata's programming capabilities”

11.45 - 12.00

Mieczyslaw Kowerski, Jaroslaw Bielak & Dawid Dlugosz, the College of Management and Public Administration, PL „Variable selection with Stata. The case of assessment of the economic condition of small enterprises with logit micro-macro models.”

12.00 - 12.30

Maarten Buis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL  „Direct and indirect effects in a logit model”

12.30 - 13.00 

Maciej Jakubowski & Pawel Strawinski, Warsaw University , PL “Matching methods in Stata”

13.00 - 14.30

Lunch break

14.30 - 15.00

Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University , UK   „Tutorial on loops in Stata”

15.00 - 15.15

Andrzej Tomaszewski, Warsaw University , tba

15.15 – 16.00

Maarten Buis, Nick Cox & Bill Gould „How do I do that in Stata?".

16.00 - 16.30

Coffee & Tea break

16.30 - 17.45

Bill Gould “Report to users & wishes and grumbles”
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