st: 2008 Summer North American Stata Users Group meeting (in Chicago)

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to invite  
everyone to participate in this Summer's North American Stata Users  
Group (SNASUG) meeting, to be held July 24-25th in Chicago.  The  
meeting will be held in the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center,  
right on the Chicago river in the heart of downtown.  Chicago is a  
great place to visit in the summer, and the location of the  
conference will make is easy to take advantage of all the city has to  
offer.

Below is the call for presentations; you may also visit the official  
SNASUG '08 web page at http://www.stata.com/meeting/snasug08/ for  
more information.  This year's organizing committee consists of Scott  
Long, Pravin Trivedi, Richard Williams, and myself.  Please contact  
one of us if you would like to discuss an idea for a presentation or  
have questions about the program format.  For those of you who have  
not attended a Stata users group meeting before, giving a  
presentation is a great opportunity to share what you are doing in  
Stata with others, and to get feedback from interested (and  
knowledgeable) users and from StataCorp developers.  And, as an added  
bonus, if your abstract is accepted for presentation, the conference  
registration fee will be waived (primary author only).

We look forward to seeing everyone in Chicago!


-- Phil


Announcement and call for presentations
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The 2008 Summer North American Stata Users Group (SNASUG) meeting  
will be held July 24–25, 2008, in the University of Chicago Graduate  
School of Business Gleacher Center.  This will be the first Stata  
users’ meeting to be held in Chicago; previous North American  
meetings have been held in Boston and Los Angeles.  The Gleacher  
Center is located downtown on the bank of the Chicago River, just  
steps from Michigan Avenue and within walking distance from most  
downtown attractions.

Stata Users Group meetings are enjoyable and rewarding for Stata  
users at all levels and from all disciplines.  As always, this year's  
program will consist primarily of user presentations together with a  
couple of longer talks by invited presenters.  In addition, the  
program will include the ever-popular "Wishes and Grumbles" session  
in which users have an opportunity to share their comments and  
suggestions directly with developers from StataCorp.

All users are encouraged to submit abstracts for possible  
presentations.  Presentations on any Stata-related topic will be  
considered, including (but not limited to) the following topics:

    - new user-written commands, including commands for modeling and
      estimation, graphical analysis, data management, or reporting
    - use or evaluation of existing Stata commands
    - methods for using Stata or for teaching statistics with Stata
    - case studies of Stata use in novel areas or applications
    - surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
    - comparisons of Stata to other software or use of Stata  
together with
      other software

Presentations should be either 10 or 25 minutes long, followed by 5  
minutes for questions.

Submission guidelines
---------------------

Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words (ASCII text, no  
math symbols) using the web submission form located at http:// 
repec.org/snasug08/snasug1.php (kindly provided by Kit Baum).  All  
abstracts must be received by April 1, 2008.  Please include a short,  
informative title and indicate whether you wish to be considered for  
a short (10-minute) or long (25-minute) presentation.  If your  
presentation has multiple authors, please identify one author as the  
primary author.  The conference registration fee will be waived for  
the primary author of selected presentations.


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