Stata | 2012 Portuguese Stata Users Group meeting

Date:	September 7, 2012
Venue:	Nova School of Business and Economics Campus de Campolide 1099-032 Lisboa Portugal
Cost:	€20 regular; €10 student Fee includes two coffee breaks, lunch, and meeting materials. VAT included.

2012 Portuguese Stata Users Group meeting

Announcement and call for presentations

The 2012 Portuguese Stata Users Group meeting will be held at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 7. The objective of the meeting is to provide Stata users the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new applications of the software. Everybody who is interested in using Stata is welcome.

The conference language will be English.

Program

9:00–9:20	Registration
9:20–9:30	Welcome address
9:30–11:00	Slippery slopes Invited speaker: Pedro Portugal Nova School of Business and Economics Universidade Nova de Lisboa
11:00–11:30	Coffee break
11:30–1:15	Presentations
	The impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal Ana Tavares Banco de Portugal Pedro Portugal Nova School of Business and Economics
	Determinants of generics’ market growth Bruno Duarte Martins Pedro Pita Barros Luís Catela Nunes Nova School of Business and Economics
	The use of technology in Portuguese hospitals: The case of MRI Ana Moura Pedro Pita Barros Nova School of Business and Economics
	Do hospitals react to random demand pressure by early discharges? Filipa Albano Nova School of Business and Economics
	The impact of innovation on Healthcare costs: A multiple imputation approach Erika Laranjeira Filipe Grilo Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto
1:15–2:15	Lunch
2:15–3:45	Presentations
	Job (in)stability Pedro Raposo Universidade Católica Portuguesa José Ferreira Machado Nova School of Business and Economics Pedro Portugal Nova School of Business and Economics
	Cox models in risk management Jorge Siopa Rui Ruben Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
	SCOREDUM: A Stata command to test for fixed effects in Poisson and Logit models Paulo de Freitas Guimarães Faculdade Economia da Universidade Porto
	Stata for practitioners: Creating automated reports in Excel Sven-Oliver Spieß University of Osnabrück
3:45–4:15	Coffee break
4:15–5:15	Working in the margins to plot a clear course Bill Rising StataCorp LP
5:15–5:45	Stata as a teaching tool (open discussion)
5:45–6:15	Report to users Bill Rising StataCorp LP
6:15–6:45	Wishes and grumbles

Pena National Palace in Lisbon, Portugal

Pena National Palace in Sintra, Portugal (Lisbon Region)

Registration

Participants are asked to travel at their own expense. The conference fee includes two coffee breaks, lunch, and meeting materials. Timberlake Consultores generously sponsors registration fee waivers for presentations (only one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of the number of authors involved).

Register online. You can also enroll by contacting Luís Barros or Vasco Tavares of Timberlake Consultores by email (stataugm@novasbe.pt) or by phone (00 351 245 308 549).

Organizers

Scientific organizers

Pedro Pita Barros
Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(ppbarros@novasbe.pt)

João Cerejeira
Escola de Economia e Gestão, Universidade do Minho
(jccsilva@eeg.uminho.pt)

Sónia Félix
Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(sfelix@novasbe.pt)

Luís Catela Nunes
Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(lcnunes@novasbe.pt)

Antonio Gouveia de Oliveira
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(oliveira.amg@gmail.com

Miguel Portela
Escola de Economia e Gestão, Universidade do Minho
(mangelo@eeg.uminho.pt)

Patricia Xufre
Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(pxufre@novasbe.pt)

Logisitics organizer

Timberlake Consultores
stataugm@novasbe.pt
timberlake.pt
Phone: 00 351 245 308 549

View the proceedings of previous Stata Users Group meetings.