Meetings: 2010 Italian Stata Users Group meeting

TStat S.r.l., the distributor of Stata software in Italy, is pleased to announce the seventh Italian Stata Users Group meeting, to be held in Bologna on November 11–12, 2010. The objective of the meeting is to provide Stata users working in different research areas with the unique opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new applications of the software. Proposed topics include

The first day of the meeting will be organized into four sessions. Each session will include three presentations of approximately 20 minutes a piece, followed by 10 to 15 minutes of discussion. The first session is reserved for an invited speaker, Maarten Buis. Two training courses will be organized on the second day of the meeting: the first, Analisi dei Rischi Competitivi, will be given in Italian (for details, click here); the second, Programming an Estimation Command in Stata and Mata, will be given in English (for details, click here). A detailed program of the meeting will be available on TStat’s website by the end of September 2010.

Submissions

The submissions deadline has passed. The scientific committee will make a preliminary selection on the basis of submitted abstracts by September 15, 2010. If selected, you must submit a final version of your paper to the scientific committee by October 28, 2010.

Program

Thursday, November 11: Presentations

9:00–9:20	Registration of participants / Welcome from the scientific committee
9:20–9:30	Stata—diffusione in Italia dal 2000 al 2010
9:30–10:45	Session I — Invited speaker (chair: Maurizio Pisati)
	Extracting results from nonlinear models Maarten Buis Institut für Soziologie Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
10:45–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–11:30	Session II — User-written commands and routines I (chair: Rino Bellocco)
	Multilevel regression and poststratification in Stata Maurizio Pisati and Valeria Glorloso Università di Milano-Bicocca
	Anova-type consistent estimators of variance components in umbalanced multiway error compnents models Giovanni Bruno Università Bocconi
11:30–12:45	Session III — Exploiting the potential of Stata 11 (chair: Una-Louise Bell)
	Estimating partial effects using margins in Stata 11 David Drukker StataCorp LP
12:45–2:15	Lunch
2:15–3:30	Session IV — Exploiting the potential of Stata 11 (chair: Una-Louise Bell)
	Multiple imputation in Stata Bill Rising StataCorp LP
3:30–4:45	Session V — User-written commands and routines II (chair: Giovanni Capelli)
	M statistic commands: Interpoint distance distribution analysis Pietro Tebaldi and Marco Bonetti Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Milano Marcello Pagano Harvard University
	Tabula, what you see is what you tabulate Giovanni Luca Lo Magno Unversità degli Studi di Palermo
4:45–5:00	Coffee break
5:00–5:30	Report to users / Wishes and grumbles
	Bill Rising StataCorp LP

Friday, November 12: Courses

9:00–5:00	Analisi dei Rischi Competitivi (in Italian)
9:00–5:00	Programming an Estimation Command in Stata and Mata (in English)

Social dinner

We are pleased to announce that the optional social dinner will be held the evening of November 11 at All’Osteria Bottega on Via S. Caterina, 51. Meet at the Grand Hotel Majestic giá Baglioni at 7:30 PM or arrive directly at the restaurant at 8:00 PM.

Reservations must be made at the time of the conference. The participation fee is about €45 per person and is payable directly on site.

Registration

Click here for the registration form in Italian.
Click here for the registration form in English.

Accommodations

The conference venue, the Grand Hotel Majestic giá Baglioni, is located in the heart of Bologna on Via Indipendenza, 8. The hotel is a short walk from museums, theaters, galleries, and cathedrals.

By plane: International Airport Guglielmo Marconi (BLQ) is 8 km from downtown; the hotel is well connected by bus and taxi.

By train: La Stazione Centrale di Bologna (Central Station of Bologna) is about 900 meters away from the hotel. From Piazza delle Medaglie D’oro, turn left onto Via Pietromellara. Go straight to Piazza XX Settembre and then to Via Indipendenza.

By car: Exit the motorway and take the ring road until the exit Fiera No. 7. Continue toward the city center, following signs for Stazione Centrale (Central Station) and then for the hotel. Parking is available nearby.

The meeting is being organized by TStat S.r.l. (www.tstat.it), the distributor of Stata in Italy. TStat has negotiated special rates with some hotels in Bologna for meeting participants. See the hotel booking form for details or to reserve a room at the reduced rate.

For more information or assistance with accommodations, please contact Monica Gianni at TStat:

2010 Italian Stata Users Group meeting

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