Meetings: 2010 Mexican Stata Users Group meeting

2010 Mexican Stata Users Group meeting

English | Español

Date:

April 29, 2010

Venue:

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

Cost:

Professionals: 1,160 pesos*
Students: 580 pesos*

*	Cost includes VAT, temporary license of Stata, coffee, refreshments, and lunch.

Program announcement

The second Stata Users Group meeting in Mexico will be held on Thursday, April 29, 2010, at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. The meeting is open to all interested. StataCorp will be represented.

Program

Thursday, April 29, 2010


8:30 AM–9:00 AM	Registration
9:00 AM–9:30 AM	Welcome
9:30 AM–10:00 AM	Estimation of treatment effects for social program evaluation Omar Stabridis Janet Zamudio Mario Paulín Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social
10:00 AM–10:20 AM	Stata as a tool for transparency and statistics dissemination: Measuring multidimensional poverty in México Víctor H. Pérez Dulce Cano Rocío Espinosa Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social
10:20 AM–10:40 AM	Measuring poverty at state level using Stata Carlos Guerrero de Lizardi Manuel Lara Caballero Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
10:40 AM–11:15 AM	Break
11:15 AM–11:35 AM	Hierarchical linear models using Stata Delfino Vargas Chanes Colegio de México Maria Merino ITAM
11:35 AM–11:55 AM	Generating descriptive statistics from the MXFLS Alicia Santana Cartas Universidad Iberoamericana
12:00 PM–1:00 PM	Keynote lecture: Estimation of count-data panel models Pravin K. Trivedi Indiana University
1:00 PM–2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM–2:30 PM	Bivariate dynamic probit models for panel data Alfonso Miranda Institute of Education, University of London
2:30 PM–3:00 PM	Selection-bias correction based on the multinomial logit: An application to the Mexican labor market Luis Huesca Mario Camberos Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo
3:00 PM–4:00 PM	Generalized method of moments estimators in Stata David Drukker Director of Econometrics, StataCorp LP
4:00 PM–4:15 PM	Break
4:15 PM–4:45 PM	Using Stata to analyze size frequency of the life cycle of a Mexican desert spider Irma Gisela Nieto-Castañeda María Luisa Jiménez-Jiménez Isaías H. Salgado-Ugarte Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. y FES Zaragoza UNAM
4:45 PM–5:15 PM	ML modeling capabilities: Stata vs Gauss Armando Sánchez Vargas Institute for Economic Research, UNAM
5:15 PM–5:30 PM	Break
5:30 PM–6:30 PM	Analyzing data from complex survey designs Isabel Cañette StataCorp LP
6:30 PM–end of day	Report to users and “Wishes and grumbles” David Drukker Director of Econometrics, StataCorp LP

Torre Mayor in Mexico City

Language

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 generously sponsors registration fee waivers for presenters (one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of the number of authors involved).

Organizers

Scientific committee

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

Landy Sanchez Peña
Colegio de México
lsanchez@colmex.mx

Logistics organizer

MultiON Consulting S.A. de C.V. is the distributor of Stata in Mexico and Central America. Visit the MultiON Consulting website at www.multion.com.mx.

Joaquín Maury (main director)
MultiON Consulting S.A. de C.V.
jmaury@multion.com.mx