2008 Polish Stata Users Group meeting
Announcement
The first Polish Stata Users Group meeting will be held at the Faculty of
Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, on March 29, 2008. This meeting will
be the first Stata Users Group meeting to be held in Eastern Europe. Anyone
interested in Stata is invited to attend. StataCorp will be represented.
Call for papers
Presentation topics might include
- discussion of user-written Stata programs,
- case studies of research or teaching using Stata,
- discussions of data-management problems,
- reviews of analytical issues, and
- surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields, etc.
Castle Square in old town Warsaw |
We would like to put special emphasis on applications of Stata in
econometric and time-series modeling and medical applications.
Please email the scientific organizers if you are
interested in presenting a paper, and indicate whether you wish to give
- a 20-minute talk (followed by a 10-minute discussion),
- a 10-minute talk (followed by a 5-minute discussion), or
- a longer review or tutorial (about an hour).
If you would like to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution,
please contact the scientific organizers.
The conference language will be English. However, if there is demand among
participants for Polish-language presentations, we will provide special
sessions.
Please send submissions to the scientific
organizers by February 29, 2008.
The meeting will include the usual “Wishes and grumbles” session
at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers.
A detailed program will be announced later.
The organizers look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or
to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution. Confirmation of the
program will be circulated in February
2008.
For proceedings of previous Stata Users Group meetings, visit
http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.
Registration
There will be a small registration fee, 25 PLN (approximately 8 Euro), to
cover lunch costs.
For a registration form in English,
click here.
For a registration form in Polish,
click here.
Potential visitors to Warsaw might like to know that March weather in Poland
is highly variable.
Organizers
Scientific organizers
Maciej Jakubowski
(mjakubowski@uw.edu.pl)
Paweł Strawiński
(pstrawinski@wne.uw.edu.pl)
Andrzej Tomaszewski
(tomaszewski@wne.uw.edu.pl)
Logistics organizers
Timberlake Consultants Polska is the Polish office of Timberlake
Consultants—distributors of Stata in the UK , Ireland, Spain,
Portugal, Poland, and Brazil. Visit the Timberlake Polska website at
http://www.timberlake.pl or the main Timberlake website at
http://www.timberlake.co.uk.
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