Meetings: 2012 German Stata Users Group meeting

2012 German Stata Users Group meeting

The 10th German Stata Users Group meeting will be held at the WZB Social Science Research Center in Berlin on Friday, June 1, 2012. An optional workshop will be held on May 31. Everyone is invited to attend.

Meeting date:	June 1, 2012
Meeting venue:	WZB Social Science Research Center Reichpietschufer 50 D-10785 Berlin Germany
Workshop:	Applied Data Management Using Stata by Kerstin Hoenig, Sebastian Wenz, and Sven-Oliver Spieß May 31, 2012
Cost:	Meeting only: €45 regular; €25 students Workshop only: €65 Both meeting and workshop: €85

Statue of Victoria, Berlin

Program

08:45–09:00	Registration
09:00–09:15	Welcome
09:15–10:15	Handling interactions in Stata, especially with continuous predictors Patrick Royston University College London Willi Sauerbrei University of Freiburg
10:15–11:15	Exploratory spatial data analysis using Stata Maurizio Pisati University of Milano–Bicocca
11:15–11:30	Coffee
11:30–12:00	leebounds: Lee’s treatment effect bounds for samples with nonrandom sample selection Harald Tauchmann Rheinisch-Westfäisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
12:00–12:30	Comparing observed and theoretical distributions Maarten Buis University of Tübingen
12:30–1:30	Lunch
1:30–2:00	A simple alternative to the linear probability model for binary choice models with endogenous regressors Christopher F. Baum Boston College and DIW Berlin Yingying Dong University of California Irvine Arthur Lewbel Boston College Tao Yang Boston College
2:00–2:30	Robust regression in Stata Ben Jann University of Bern
2:30–3:00	Working in the margins to plot a clear course Bill Rising StataCorp LP
3:00–3:15	Coffee
3:15–3:45	Can multilevel multiprocess models be estimated using Stata? A case for the cmp command Tamás Bartus Corvinus University of Budapest
3:45–4:15	Rescaling results of mixed nonlinear probability models to compare regression coefficients or variance components across hierarchically nested models Dirk Enzmann University of Hamburg Ulrich Kohler Social Science Research Center Berlin
4:15–4:45	Multilevel tools Katja Möhring Alexander Schmidt University of Cologne
4:45–5:00	Coffee
5:00–5:30	Modular programming in Stata Daniel Schneider University of Frankfurt/Main
5:30–6:15	Report to users Bill Gould (StataCorp)
6:15–6:45	Wishes and grumbles

Registration

Participants are asked to travel at their own expense. The conference fee covers costs for coffee, tea, and lunch. There will also be an optional informal meal at additional cost at a restaurant in Berlin on Friday evening.

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

Anke Mrosek
Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH
Prinzenstr. 2
42697 Solingen
Tel: +49 (0) 212 260 66-24
Fax: +49 (0) 212 260 66-66

Organizers

Scientific organizers

Johannes Giesecke
University of Bamberg
(johannes.giesecke@uni-bamberg.de)

Ulrich Kohler
WZB Social Science Research Center, Berlin
(kohler@wzb.eu)

Logistics organizer

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

View the proceedings of previous Stata Users Group meetings.