Program announcement ---------------------

The seventh German Stata Users Group meeting will be held on Friday, June 26, 2009, in Bonn at the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor,). We would like to invite everybody from everywhere who is interested in using Stata to attend this meeting. The conference language will be English because of the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers.

The meeting will include presentations about graphs, general statistics, programming, and data management, both by researchers and by StataCorp staff. The meeting will also include a "wishes and grumbles" session, during which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers. Finally, there is (at additional cost) the option of an informal meal at a Bonn restaurant on Friday evening.

For those traveling from abroad, it may be worth noting that Bonn is not only the former capital of West Germany, but is also the gateway to the Rhine gorge, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002 and which is also known as "the Romantic Rhine" for its many castles and vineyards ("Rhine", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia).

Details about accommodations and fees are given below the program.

Program -------

Please point your browser to http://www.stata.com/meeting/germany09/index.html for the abstracts of the presentations.

9:00–9:30 Registration

9:30–10:15 Between tables and graphs: A tutorial Nicholas J. Cox, n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk, Durham University

10:15–11:00 Causal inference with observational data: Regression discontinuity and other methods in Stata Austin Nichols, austinnichols@gmail.com, Urban Institute, Washington DC

11:00–11:15 Coffee

11:15–11:45 Computing poverty measures with survey data Philippe Van Kerm, philippe.vankerm@ceps.lu, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg

11:45–12:15 Using and interpreting restricted cubic splines Maarten Buis, maarten.buis@ifsoz.uni-tuebingen.de, Universität Tübingen, Institut für Soziologie

12:15–12:45 Performing within and between analysis (WABA) in Stata Sven-Oliver Spieß, mail@svenoliverspiess.net, University of Mannheim

12:45–1:45 Lunch

13:45–14:30 Using Mata to work more effectively with Stata: A tutorial Christopher F. Baum, baum@bc.edu, Boston College

2:30–3:00 The biplot command and software development at StataCorp Magdalena Luniak, mluniak@cs.tu-berlin.de, TU Berlin

3:00–3:15 Coffee

3:15–4:00 Reproducible research: Weaving with Stata Bill Rising, brising@stata.com, StataCorp

4:00–4:30 Creating LaTeX documents from within Stata Ben Jann, jannb@ethz.ch, ETH Zurich

4:30–5:00 Using remote access to big datasets efficiently with Stata Volker Lang, v.lang@uni-tuebingen.de, University of Tübingen

5:00–5:15 Coffee

5:15–6:00 Report to users Bill Rising, brising@stata.com, StataCorp

6:00–6:30 Wishes and grumbles

Registration and accommodations -------------------------------

Please travel at your own expense. The conference fee includes 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 (anke.mrosek@dpc.de) 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

Venue ------

IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 5-9 D-53113 Bonn Germany Tel. +49 (0)228/38940

Cost ----

€35 regular; €15 students

Scientific organizers ----------------------

Nikos Askitas (askitas@iza.org), Johannes Giesecke (johannes.giesecke@wzb.eu), and Ulrich Kohler (kohler@wzb.eu) are organizing the academic program of the meeting.

Logistics organizers --------------------

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.