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Stata Conference Boston 2010:
Announcement and call for presentations
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The Stata Conference Boston 2010 will be held on July 15 and 16 at the Omni
Parker House hotel, located in downtown Boston near the Boston Common and the Park
Street T.
Call for presentations
All users are encouraged to submit abstracts for possible presentations.
Presentations on any Stata-related topic will be considered, including (but
not limited to) the following topics:
- new user-written commands, including commands for modeling and estimation,
graphical analysis, data management, or reporting
- use or evaluation of existing Stata commands
- methods for using Stata or for teaching statistics with Stata
- case studies of Stata use in novel areas or applications
- surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
- comparisons of Stata to other software or use of Stata together with other
software
Presentations should be either 15 or 25 minutes long, followed by 5 minutes
for questions.
Submission guidelines
Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words (ASCII text, no math
symbols) using the web submission form at
http://repec.org/bos10/bos10.php.
All abstracts must be received by March 31, 2010, to be considered. Please include a short,
informative title and indicate whether you wish to be considered for a short
(15-minute) or long (25-minute) presentation. If your presentation has
multiple authors, please identify one author as the primary author. The
conference registration fee will be waived for the primary author of
accepted presentations.
If you would like to discuss an idea for a presentation or have questions
about the program format, please contact a member of the scientific
committee:
Liz Allred (Harvard School of Public Health),
Kit Baum (Boston College),
Amresh Hanchate (Boston University), or
Marcello Pagano (Harvard School of Public Health).
Presenters will be asked to provide materials related to their talk (slides
and programs/datasets, where applicable) in electronic form, preferably
before the meeting, to the organizers, so that the materials can be posted
on the StataCorp website and in the Stata Users Group RePEc archive.
Registration and accommodations
Rooms at the Omni Parker House hotel are available at the discounted rate of
$179 per night. Call 617-227-8600, and be sure to mention you are with
the Stata Conference to receive the discounted rate.
Click here to register.
Special needs
If you have any special needs (vegetarian, handicapped, etc.), please
contact Sarah Marrs, smarrs@stata.com.
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