2018 German Stata Users Group Meeting (Announcement and Program)

[Ulrich Kohler]

Conference Date	Friday, June 22 2018 9:00--18:00
Workshop Date	Thursday, June 21 2018 9:00--13:00 (Graphics Workshpp) 14:00--18:00 (Bayesian Workshop)
Venue	University of Konstanz Universitätsstraße 10 Room G310 (Workshops) Room A704 (Conference)
Costs	Meeting only: 45 € (Students: 35€) Workshops only: 65€ Meeting and Workshops: 85€

Registration Deadline: June 15, 2018

Overview

Meeting The 16th German Stata Users Group Meeting will be held on Friday, 22nd June 2018 in Konstanz at the University of Konstanz. We would like to invite everybody from everywhere who is interested in using Stata to attend this meeting. The academic program of the meeting is being organized by Maarten Buis (University of Konstanz), Johannes Giesecke (Humboldt University Berlin), Thomas Hinz (University of Konstanz), and Ulrich Kohler (University of Potsdam). The conference language will be English due to the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers. The logistics of the conference are being organized by Dittrich und Partner, distributor of Stata in several countries including Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic and Hungary (http://www.dpc-software.de).

Workshops On the day before the conference, there will be two workshop: the morning workshop is “Graphics with Stata” given by Maarten Buis and the afternoon workshop is “Bayesian analysis using Stata” given by Yulia Marchenko. Details about the workshop are given below, and at http://www.stata.com/meeting/germany18 or www.dpc-software.de

Conference Dinner There is (at additional cost) the option of an informal meal at the Hafenhalle (Hafenstraße10, Konstanz) on Friday evening. Details about this event will be provided soon.

Program

09:00 - 09:15 Registration

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome

09:30 - 10:30 From 3 to 15: Milestones, Dead Ends, Prospects. A subjective review of Stata's history
Ulrich Kohler (University of Potsdam)

10:30 - 11:00 Customizing Stata graphs made easy
Ben Jann (University of Bern)

11:00 - 11:30 Specifying appropriate null models with longitudinal CFAs
Sven O. Spieß (Dittrich & Partner Consulting)

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee

11:45 - 12:15 SWAPGPSXY. A Tool for Interchanging GPS Coordinates
Brian W. Mandikiana (Qatar University)

12:15 - 12:45 Text mining with ngram variables
Matthias Schonlau (University of Waterloo)

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:15Efficient Programming in Stata and Mata II: Obtaining Non-standard Distributions for a Cointegration Test via Simulation
Daniel C. Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

14:15 - 14:45 How to use Stata’s sem command with small samples? New corrections for the Likelihood Ratio chi square statistic and fit indices basing on it
Wolfgang Langer (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)

14:45 - 15:15 Making interactive presentations in Stata
Maarten Buis (University of Konstanz)

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee

15:30 - 16:00 Efficient construction of good tests using Stata
Alexander Schmidt-Catran (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

16:00 - 17:00 Efficient dynamic documents using Stata
Bill Rising (StataCorp)

17:00 - 17:15 Coffee

17:15 - 18:00 Wishes and grumbles

18:00 End of the meeting

Abtstracts of the presentations are published on the conference site at http://www.stata.com/meeting/germany18.


Conference Venue

University of Konstanz
Universitätsstraße 10
Room A704

https://www.uni.kn

From the city center take busses 9A or 9B. For more information, see https://www.uni.kn/anreise.


Workshop "Graphics with Stata"

Date and Place	Thursday, June 21 2018, 9:00 – 13:00, room G310
Presenter	Maarten Buis
Fees	65 € both Workshops (Workshops and Conference: 85 €)
Register	[email protected]
Information	https://www.stata.com/meeting/germany18/ www.dpc-software.de

This workshop is intended for participants who want to make the most out of graphs in Stata. Stata has very powerful graphics language, but with power comes an elaborate syntax with a lot of options. This makes it easy to get lost and overlook useful possibilities. In this workshop we will focus on building your graph step by step, and tips and tricks to create a wide range of informative graphs.

Prerequisites Basic knowledge of Stata.

Lecturer Maarten Buis is lecturer at the University of Konstanz.

Workshop “Bayesian analysis using Stata”

Date and Place	Thursday, June 21 2018, 14:00 – 18:00, room G310
Presenter	Yulia Marchenko
Fees	65 € both Workshops (workshops and Conference: 85 €)
Register	[email protected]
Information	https://www.stata.com/meeting/germany18/ www.dpc-software.de

This workshop covers the use of Stata to perform Bayesian analysis. Bayesian analysis is a statistical paradigm that answers research questions about unknown parameters using probability statements. For example, what is the probability that a person accused of a crime is guilty? What is the probability that the odds ratio is between 0.3 and 0.5? And many more. Such probabilistic statements are natural to Bayesian analysis because of the underlying assumption that all parameters are random quantities. In Bayesian analysis, a parameter is summarized by an entire distribution of values instead of one fixed value as in classical frequentist analysis. Estimating this distribution, a posterior distribution of a parameter of interest, is at the heart of Bayesian analysis. This workshop will demonstrate the use of Bayesian analysis in various applications and will introduce Stata's suite of commands for conducting Bayesian analysis.

Prerequisites Basic knowledge of Stata.

Lecturer Yulia Marchenko is Executive Director of Statistics at StataCorp