2008 Polish Stata Users Group meeting

Program announcement

The first Polish Stata Users Group meeting will be held at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, on March 29, 2008. This meeting will be the first Stata Users Group meeting to be held in Eastern Europe. Anyone interested in Stata is invited to attend. StataCorp will be represented.

Dates:	Saturday, March 29, 2008
Venue:	Faculty of Economic Sciences Warsaw University Dluga str 44/50
Price:	25 PLN
Registration:	English registration form Polish registration form

Program

09:00–09:25	Registration
09:25–09:30	Welcome (chairman of the meeting)
09:30–10:00	Graphs for all seasons Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, UK
10:00–10:30	Double selection model Jerzy Mycielski Warsaw University, Poland
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–11:45	Mata and Stata’s programming capabilities William Gould StataCorp, USA
11:45–12:00	Variable selection with Stata: The case of assessment of the economic condition of small enterprises with logit micro-macro models Mieczyslaw Kowerski, Jaroslaw Bielak, and Dawid Dlugosz College of Management and Public Administration, Poland
12:00–12:30	Direct and indirect effects in a logit model Maarten Buis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
12:30–13:00	Matching methods in Stata Maciej Jakubowski and Pawel Strawinski Warsaw University, Poland
13:00–14:30	Lunch break
14:30–15:00	Tutorial on loops in Stata Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, UK
15:00–15:15	TBA Andrzej Tomaszewski Warsaw University, Poland
15:15–16:00	How do I do that in Stata? Maarten Buis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nicholas J. Cox Durham University, UK William Gould StataCorp, USA
16:00–16:30	Coffee and tea break
16:30–17:45	Report to users and Wishes and grumbles William Gould StataCorp, USA

The conference language will be in English.

Castle Square in old town Warsaw

Registration

There will be a small registration fee, 25 PLN (approximately 8 Euro), to cover lunch costs.

For a registration form in English, click here.

For a registration form in Polish, click here.

Potential visitors to Warsaw might like to know that March weather in Poland is highly variable.

Organizers

Scientific organizers

Logistics organizers

Timberlake Consultants Polska is the Polish office of Timberlake Consultants—distributors of Stata in the UK , Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Brazil. Visit the Timberlake Polska web site at http://www.timberlake.pl or the main Timberlake web site at http://www.timberlake.co.uk.