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StataCorp and Timberlake Consultants will be sponsors at the ISCB 2022 Annual Conference. Attending from StataCorp: Yulia Marchenko, Vice President, Statistics and Data Science. We're also hosting a talk as part of the Mini-Symposium "Modern software tools for modern statistics". For more information about the meeting, visit the ISCB 2022 Annual Conference page.
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| Title: | Professional software development: Tips and tricks |
| Presenter: | Yulia Marchenko, Vice President, Statistics and Data Science |
| Date: | Thursday, 25 August 2022 |
| Time: | 11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
| Abstract: |
In this presentation, I will talk about professional software development and the challenges of producing and supporting a statistical software package. I will share a few tips for how to produce high-quality software, including verification, certification, and reproducibility of the results, and for how to write efficient and stable code. I will also discuss some of the aspects of commercial software development, such as clear and comprehensive documentation, consistent specifications, concise and transparent output, extensive error checks, and more. |
Yulia Marchenko is Vice President, Statistics and Data Science at StataCorp. Yulia has been with Stata for over 20 years and has more than 25 years of software development experience. Her primary responsibility is to oversee Stata's scientific software development. Her areas of interest include Bayesian analysis, multiple imputation, meta-analysis, multilevel modeling, survival analysis, power analysis, causal analysis, and other areas of statistics, biostatistics, and econometrics. Yulia has a PhD in statistics from Texas A&M University.
