2nd Announcement and Call for Papers
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The 7th German Stata Users Group Meeting will be held at the IDSC of IZA
at the IZA Bonn on Friday, June 26, 2009. Anyone interested in Stata is
invited to attend.
We are very delighted that Nicholas J. Cox, and Austin Nichols have
accepted our invitation to attend the meeting as international guest
speaker. Nick Cox is Editor of the Stata Journal, author of a regular
column "Speaking Stata" and well known to Stata users as a programmer
for many Stata programs. Austin Nichols is an economist at the Urban
Institute in Washington, DC who has made important contributions to the
problem of causal inference with observational data. The presentations
of the international keynote speakers will be:
- Between tables and graphs: A tutorial (N. Cox)
- Causal inference with observational data: Regression discontinuity and
other methods in Stata (A. Nichols)
Among the other presentations is a introduction to programming with Mata
by Christopher Baum, author of the book "An Introduction to
Stata Programming".
We still seek presentations on topics that include
* 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.
The conference language will be English because of the international
nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest
speakers. (See http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html for the
proceedings of other user group meetings.)
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract by
email to one of the scientific organizers, or by using the online
submission system at the IZA (http://www.iza.org/desug2009). The
deadline for
submissions is March 30, 2009. Please keep your presentation to 20
minutes or shorter.
Registration and accommodations
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Please travel at your own expense. The conference fee will be 35€
(Students 15€) to cover costs for coffee, teas, and luncheons. There
will also be an optional informal meal at a restaurant in Bonn on Friday
evening at additional cost.
You can enroll by contacting Anke Mrosek ([email protected]) by email
or by writing, phoning, or faxing
Anke Mrosek
Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH
Kieler Str. 17
42697 Solingen
Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 212 260 66 24
Fax:+49 (0) 212 260 66 66
Scientific Organizers
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Nikos Askitas ([email protected]), Johannes Giesecke
([email protected]), and Ulrich Kohler ([email protected]) are
organizing the academic program of the meeting.
Logistics organizers
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The logistics are being organized by Dittrich and Partner
(http://www.dpc.de), the distributor of Stata in several countries
including Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, and
Hungary.
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