Discover the charm of Canada’s capital as you attend the 2025 Canadian Stata Conference. Explore Ottawa’s historic landmarks, such as Parliament Hill and the Rideau Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Savor Canadian culinary favorites like poutine and butter tarts, stroll through the bustling ByWard Market, or enjoy the vibrant art and history exhibits at the National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa’s blend of culture, cuisine, and scenic beauty offers an inspiring backdrop for this year’s conference.
All users are encouraged to submit abstracts for this year's conference.
A subset will be chosen from submitted abstracts for either a short (15-minute) or a long (25-minute) presentation (both to be followed by 5 minutes for questions). Submissions are welcome from all Stata users, including students and new professionals.
Any topic related to Stata or relevant to Stata users is appropriate, including the following:
New community-contributed commands for model estimation, graphing, data management, results reporting, or other purposes
New approaches for using Stata together with other software
Innovative use or evaluations of existing Stata commands
New analytic methods of particular relevance to Stata users
Case studies of using Stata for applications in various disciplines
Methods and resources for teaching statistics with Stata or for teaching the use of Stata
For examples of past presentations, view the proceedings page.
All abstracts must be received by 3 July 2025.
If you would like to discuss an idea for a presentation or have questions about the program format, please contact us directly. Presentations longer than 25 minutes will be considered at the discretion of the committee. Accepted speakers will be asked to attend and present at the conference in person.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words (ASCII text, no math symbols) using the web form below.
Include a short informative title, and indicate whether you wish to be considered for a short (15-minute) or long (25-minute) presentation. In addition, if your presentation has multiple authors, please identify the presenter, for whom the conference registration fee will be waived.
Presenters will also be asked to provide the organizers with electronic materials (a copy of the presentation and any programs or datasets, where applicable), as well as a professional headshot.
The scientific committee is responsible for the Canadian Stata Conference program. With submissions encouraged from both new and longtime Stata users from all backgrounds, the committee will review all abstracts in developing an exciting, diverse, and informative program. We look forward to seeing you in Ottawa!
Heng Chen is an assistant director and research advisor in the Currency Department at the Bank of Canada. His primary research interests center on understanding cash demand and usage through surveys and causal inference. Heng Chen received his PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University.
Anson Ho is an associate professor in the Real Estate Management Department at Toronto Metropolitan University. His primary research interests include consumer finance, housing, and macroeconomics. Prior to joining Toronto Metropolitan University in 2020, Anson was a senior economist in the Financial Stability Department at the Bank of Canada (2016–2020) and an assistant professor at Kansas State University (2011–2016). Anson received his PhD in economics from the University of Iowa in 2011.
Marcel Voia is an economist and a research fellow at the Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans (LEO) CNRS. His research interests focus on theoretical and applied econometrics. His work covers several areas of theoretical econometrics: distribution analysis, dynamic models, and duration models with applications in areas of industrial organization, banking, energy, environment, political science, education, and health.
Dr. Nisha Malhotra heads the data analysis team at the Birthplace Lab at the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, where her recent research projects focus on inequities in maternity care in the United States and Canada. Dr. Malhotra is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on global health, gender, and development. Dr. Malhotra earned her doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Murtaza Haider is the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and a full professor of data science and real estate Management. He is the Research Director of the Urban Analytics Institute and has held roles including Associate Dean of Research, Director of Internationalization, Director of the School of Health Services Management, and Acting Chair of Real Estate Management. Previously, he was an assistant professor at McGill University, where he established the Urban Systems Lab.
Professor Haider’s research focuses on business analytics, housing markets, transportation, infrastructure, and human development in Canada and South Asia. He authored Getting Started with Data Science (2015) and has developed popular online courses in data science with IBM, including “Intro to Data Science”, which has reached over a million learners globally.
A syndicated columnist with Postmedia, his weekly columns on real estate appear in The National Post and regional newspapers. He holds a master's degree and PhD in civil engineering from the University of Toronto.
Dr. Leslie-Anne (LA) Keown is the Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT), which focuses on well-being and mental health for public safety personnel. In this role, she brings her expertise and extensive experience conducting leading edge research and occupying leadership roles with the Correctional Service of Canada and Statistics Canada to CIPSRT.
Dr. Keown holds a bachelor of arts (First Class Honours) degree in sociology from the University of Calgary, as well as her master of arts (sociology) and her PhD (sociology) from the University of Calgary. She is cross-appointed to Justice Studies and Sociology and Social Studies as an associate professor at the University of Regina. She is also an adjunct research professor with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She has authored numerous publications, including articles in the leading journals in her field, and has been the recipient of numerous academic scholarships and awards.
Dr. Keown is a Killam Laureate. Her research interests are varied but centered on the Canadian criminal justice system and research methodologies that focus on mixed methods or advanced quantitative techniques.
Jeff Pitblado is Executive Director, Statistical Software at StataCorp LLC. Jeff has been developing Stata since 2001. Jeff's most notable contributions to Stata include prefix commands svy, bootstrap, fmm, jackknife, nestreg, permute, simulate, and statsby, as well as features like maximum likelihood estimation, factor variables, predictive margins and marginal effects, structural equations models, multilevel mixed-effects models, finite mixture models, latent class models, item response theory models, and something else he forgot about. Jeff has a PhD in Statistics from Southern Methodist University.
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The 2025 Canadian Stata Conference will be held between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 3 October in Ottawa. Everyone is also invited to join a users' dinner on Friday night. The venue and accommodations will be announced soon.
The Canadian Stata Conference is open to users of all disciplines and experience levels, bringing together a unique mix of experts and professionals. You will hear from Stata users at the top of their fields, as well as Stata's own researchers and developers. Presentation topics will include new community-contributed commands, methods and resources for teaching with Stata, new approaches to using Stata together with other software, and much more. Anyone interested in Stata is welcome to attend.
Four of StataCorp’s developers will be attending to present, network, and answer all of your Stata questions. Look forward to meeting:
Yes! The Stata community is full of users from all disciplines, including people you may have met online but would like to meet in person. There will be breaks between sessions where you can take a moment to talk to the people around you and an open panel discussion where you can ask questions and share feedback with four of our Stata developers.
Everyone is also invited to join an optional users' dinner Friday night.
The conference presentations will not be recorded, but proceedings and slides will be made available on this page in the following weeks after the conference.
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