2007 North American Stata Users Group meeting
Beacon Hill Street
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August 13–14, 2007
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| Organizers: |
Kit Baum, baum@bc.edu
Marcello Pagano,
pagano@hsph.harvard.edu
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| Venue: |
Longwood Galleria Conference Center
342 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02115-5745
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Cost: | TBA |
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Announcement and call for presentations
The fifth North American Stata Users Group meeting will be held on August
13–14, 2007, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Longwood Galleria
Conference Center.
The first day of the meeting, which will showcase user presentations, is
being organized by a committee chaired by Kit Baum. The second day is being
organized by StataCorp and will include several presentations, some by
researchers and others by StataCorp staff. Details about accommodations and
fees are available below.
Previous Stata Users Group meetings have been held in Boston (2001, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006), Australia, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany,
Sweden, and The Netherlands. Anyone interested in Stata, regardless of level
of expertise or geographic location, is invited to attend. The meeting will
include the ever-popular “Wishes and Grumbles” session where
users make comments and suggestions to StataCorp.
For information about registration, see the
registration form.
If you have questions,
contact the organizers.
Program topics
Day 1: Monday, August 13
The organizing committee seeks 10-minute or 20- to 25-minute
Stata-related presentations, each followed by a brief discussion period
(for total presentation lengths of 15 and 30 minutes). Presentations
may be on any topic related to using Stata in research or teaching in
any field. Examples include the following:
- Using Stata for modeling and analysis
- User-written Stata programs
- Using Stata to import and manage data
- Using Stata for graphics
- Teaching Stata
- Teaching statistics with Stata
- Surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
- Software comparisons
Day 2: Tuesday, August 14
Matching Methods for Estimating Treatment Effects Using Stata
Guido W. Imbens
Department of Economics, University of
California–Berkeley
Econometric Analysis of Time-Series Data Using Stata
Director of Econometrics, StataCorp
Comparisons and Other Issues in Interpreting Models
for Categorical Outcomes Using Stata
J. Scott Long
Department of Sociology, Indiana University
Estimation and Interpretation of Inequality Measures Using Stata
Stephen P. Jenkins
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University
of Essex
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Submission guidelines
Please submit an abstract of your presentation (200 words maximum, ASCII
text, no math symbols) via the linked
web submission
form. Please indicate the presentation length you
prefer (10 or 20–25 minutes) when you submit your abstract. Conference
fees will be waived for presenters.
Please provide, in electronic form, any materials related to your
presentation (slides and programs/datasets, where applicable) to the
organizing committee before the meeting so that they can be posted on
StataCorp’s web site and in the Stata Users Group RePEc archive.
To view proceedings from previous Stata Users Group meetings, see
http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.
Please contact the organizers with questions or to discuss ideas for
presentations.
Accommodations and registration
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The North American Users Group meeting will be held on August 13–14,
2007, at
Longwood Galleria Conference Center
342 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02115-5745
To reserve a room, call Best Western Inn at Longwood direct and ask for
in-house reservations. Please refer to StataCorp Sixth North
American Stata Users Group meeting.
Hotel details:
Best Western Boston Inn at Longwood
342 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115-5745
Main phone number: 617-731-4700 or 800-468-2378
Fax number: 617-731-4870
Check in time: 3 PM
Check out time: Noon
Parking: $16.00 per day until noon on day of departure
Smoke free hotel
www.innatlongwood.com
Special needs:
If you have any special needs (vegetarian, handicapped, etc.), please
contact Chris Farrar,
cfarrar@stata.com, or Gretchen Farrar,
gfarrar@stata.com.
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Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions.
The North American Stata Users Group Meeting Organizing Committee
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