Meetings: 2011 German Stata Users Group meeting

The ninth German Stata Users Group Meeting will be held at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg on Friday, July 1, 2011. Everybody from anywhere who is interested in using Stata is invited to attend this meeting. The meeting will include presentations about causal models, general statistics, and data management, both by researchers and by StataCorp staff. The meeting will also include a “Wishes and grumbles” session, during which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.

On the day before the conference, Jeffrey Pitblado, Associate Director, Statistical Software at StataCorp will present a workshop, Survey data analysis with Stata. The workshop will begin by reviewing the sampling methods used to collect survey data and how they affect the estimation of totals, ratios, and regression coefficients. It will then cover the three variance estimators implemented in Stata’s survey estimation commands, as well several more specific topics (see description).

The conference language will be English because of the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers.

Program

8:45–9:15	Registration
9:15–10:15	Structural equation modeling using gllamm, confa, and gmm Stas Kolenikov University of Missouri–Columbia
10:15–11:15	Evaluating one-way and two-way cluster-robust covariance matrix estimates Mark E. Schaffer Heriot-Watt University–Edinburgh
11:15–11:30	Coffee
11:30–12:00	Implementation of a multinomial logit model with fixed effects Klaus Pforr Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES)
12:00–12:30	Plagiarism in student papers and cheating on exams: Results from surveys using special techniques for sensitive questions Ben Jann University of Bern
12:30–1:30	Lunch
1:30–2:00	orderalpha: Nonparametric order-α efficiency analysis for Stata Harald Tauchmann RWI
2:00–2:45	Investigating the effects of factor variables Jeff Pitblado StataCorp
2:45–3:00	Coffee
3:00–3:30	Correlation metric Kristian B. Karlson Danish National Center for Social Research and the Center for Research in Compulsory Schooling
3:30–4:00	Comparing coeficients between nested nonlinear probability models Ulrich Kohler WZB
4:00–4:30	SOEPlong: How to restructure complex longitudinal survey data (An application for the German Socio-Economic Panel study) Arno Simons Innovation in Governance Research Group, Technische Universität Berlin Katja Möhring Research Training Group SOCLIFE, University of Cologne Peter Krause German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), DIW
4:30–4:45	Coffee
4:45–5:15	Report to users Bill Rising StataCorp
5:15–6:00	Wishes and grumbles StataCorp

Registration

Participants are asked to travel at their own expense. There will be a small registration fee to cover the costs for coffee, tea, and luncheon. There will also be an optional informal meal at a restaurant in Bamberg on Friday evening for an additional cost.

You can enroll by emailing Anke Mrosek (anke.mrosek@dpc.de) or by writing, phoning, or faxing to

Anke Mrosek
Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH
Prinzenstrasse 2
42697 Solingen
GERMANY
Telephone: +49 (0) 212-260660
Fax: +49 (0) 212 260 6666

Organizers

Dittrich & Partner (www.dpc.de), the distributor of Stata in several countries, including Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary

2011 German Stata Users Group meeting

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