Meetings: 2009 Mexican Stata Users Group meeting

2009 Mexican Stata Users Group meeting

Registration information

Date:

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Venue:

Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City campus
Prolongación Paseo de la Reforma 880, Lomas de Santa Fe, México C.P. 01219, Distrito Federal, México

Cost:

	Attendees	Students
Before Feb. 28, 2009	$900.00 pesos	$450.00 pesos
After Feb. 28, 2009	$1,200.00 pesos	$600.00 pesos

Program announcement

The first Mexican Stata Users Group meeting will be held in Mexico City at the Universidad Iberoamericana (www.uia.mx/). The meeting is open to all interested, either from Mexico or abroad.

StataCorp will be represented.

The meeting will include the usual “Wishes and grumbles” session where you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.

Program

Thursday, April 23
8:00 AM–8:55 AM	Registration
8:55 AM–9:00 AM	Welcome
9:00 AM–9:30 AM	Decomposition of the Gini coefficient using Stata Alejandro López Feldman Economics Department, Universidad de Guanajuato
9:30 AM–10:00 AM	Stata in the measurement and analysis of poverty in Mexico Héctor H. Sandoval, Rodrigo Aranda Balcazar, and Martín Lima Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social
10:00 AM–10:30 AM	A review of Stata SVAR modeling capabilities Armando Sánchez Vargas Institute for Economic Research, UNAM
10:30 AM–11:00 AM	Coffee break
11:00 AM–12:00 PM	Multilevel modeling of ordinal responses Sophia Rabe-Hesketh University of California–Berkeley
12:00 PM–1:00 PM	Dealing with the cryptic survey: Processing labels and value labels with Mata Alfonso Miranda Institute of Education, University of London
1:00 PM–2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM–2:30 PM	Some improved Stata ado-files for nonparametric smoothing procedures Isaías H. Salgado Ugarte FES Zaragoza, UNAM
2:30 PM–3:00 PM	Cointegrating VAR models and probability forecasting in Stata Gustavo Sánchez Bizot Senior Statistician, StataCorp
3:00 PM–3:30 PM	Determinants and consequences of property tax collection in Mexico Daniel Broid Secreataría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP)
3:30 PM–4:00 PM	Coffee break
4:00 PM–4:30 PM	Predicting counterfactual densities with the DFL ado-file: A pertinent constructive critique Luis Huesca Economics Department, CIAD
4:30 PM–5:00 PM	Analysis of micro data from ENIGH using Stata Juan Francisco Islas Aguirre Economics Division, CIDE
5:00 PM–5:30 PM	Coffee break
5:30 PM–6:00 PM	Reproducible research: Weaving with Stata and StatWeave Bill Rising Director of Educational Services, StataCorp
6:00 PM–end of day	Report to users and “wishes and grumbles” Bill Rising Director of Educational Services, StataCorp

Language

Torre Mayor in Mexico City

The meeting will be bilingual with no translations of any kind. Presentations can be delivered in either English or Spanish according to the preference of the presenter.

Registration

MultiON Consulting will generously sponsor registration fee waivers for talks (one fee waiver per talk, regardless of the number of authors involved).

Organizers

Scientific committee:

Alfonso Miranda
Institute of Education
University of London
A.Miranda@ioe.ac.uk

Isaías H. Salgado Ugarte
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza
UNAM
isalgado@servidor.unam.mx

Logistics organizer:

MultiON Consulting is a certified distributor of Stata in Mexico. Visit the MultiON Consulting website at www.multion.com.mx.

Eder Gómez
Marketing
info@multion.com.mx
+52 (55) 55 59 40 50 Ext. 160
Call free only in Mexico
01800 MULTION