st: 2013 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting: call for presentations

[Nicola Orsini <Nicola.Orsini@ki.se>]

2013 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting
 
Date: Friday, September 27, 2013

Venue: Nobel Forum at Karolinska Institutet

Host: Unit of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.imm.ki.se/biostatistics/

Cost: Free

Announcement and call for presentations

This is the first announcement and call for presentations for the 2013 Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting. The meeting is open to everyone interested in the use or development of Stata. Personnel from StataCorp will attend, and there will be the usual “Wishes and grumbles” session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. Attending from StataCorp are David M. Drukker, Director of Econometrics, and Bill Rising, Director of Educational Services. 
 
Registration

To register for the meeting, please send an email to sug@metrika.se containing your name, affiliation, and contact details.
 
Submissions

Please send an email to Nicola Orsini (nicola.orsini@ki.se) if you are interested in giving a presentation. Indicate whether you want to give
	• a 20 min talk (followed by a 10 min discussion),
	• a 10 min talk (followed by a 5 min discussion), or
	• some other kind of presentation.
 
Abstracts should be sent by email to Nicola Orsini no later than August 31, 2013. Presentations could focus on any topic of interest, including but not limited to
	• 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, or
	• software comparisons.
 
The meeting is intended for general Stata users and no special statistical background is required of presenters or attendees. We look forward to hearing from you.
 
Scientific committee

Nicola Orsini, nicola.orsini@ki.se
Unit of Biostatistics, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine
Karolinska Institutet
 
Matteo Bottai, matteo.bottai@ki.se
Unit of Biostatistics, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine
Karolinska Institutet
 
Peter Hedström, peter.hedstrom@iffs.se  
Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm

Logistics organizers

The meeting is jointly organized by the Unit of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Metrika Consulting.
 
Metrika Consulting is the distributor of Stata in the Nordic and Baltic regions. For further information about Stata, please contact them at metrika@metrika.se.
 
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