German Stata Users' Group Meeting 2021

[Ulrich Kohler]

This is just to notify you that this years' German Stata Users Group Meeting will be held Online on June 25th 2021. A preliminary program is available on https://www.stata.com/meeting/germany21/ already and we will post the final program here and elsewhere as soon as it is fixed.

In the meantime, please save the date ...

Uli

[Ulrich Kohler]

2021 German Stata Conference
Announcement and Program

Date	June 25, 2021
Venue	Online [Join Zoom Meeting] Meeting ID: 610 2767 1921 Passcode: 32692163
Costs	Free of charge

Registration is not necessary. Just log in. Note however that our licence allows hosting meetings with up to 200 participants. If the number of participants increases above 200, participants will be allowed to enter "first come, first serve".

Meeting

The 17th German Stata Conference will be held Online on Friday, June 25 2021. Everybody from anywhere who is interested in using Stata is invited to join Online. The meeting will include presentations about causal models, general statistics, 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.

In an attempt to clone the atmosphere of a real Stata meeting, we offer topical informal break sessions. The Speaker's Corner is a break session to join the speaker(s) presented in the preceding slot. The Coffee Bar invites all participants to chat in English, and the Smoker's Lounge is for those who prefer small-talk in German. An advantage of the virtual format is that smokers are allowed at the coffee bar, too.

Language

The conference language will be English because of the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers. The Smoker's Lounge is in German, however.

Time table

9:00--9:15	Welcome Johannes Giesecke and Ulrich Kohler
9:15--10:00	Double-debiased machine learning in Stata Achim Ahrens, Christian B. Hansen and Mark Schaffer
10:00--10:30	kinkyreg: Instrument-free inference for linear regression models with endogenous regressors Jan F. Kiviet and Sebastian Kripfganz
10:30--11:00	Break-Session (with Speakers Corner, Coffee Bar, Smoker's Lounge)
11:00--11:45	Bayesian vector autoregressive models in Stata Nikolay Balov, StataCorp
11:45--12:15	Twostep Multilevel Analysis Using Stata Johannes Giesecke und Ulrich Kohler
12:15--12:45	Break-Session (with Speakers Corner, Coffee Bar, Smoker's Lounge)
12:45--13:15	Lunch Break
13:15--13:45	xtbreak: Estimating and testing breakpoints in time series and panel data Jan Ditzen, Yiannis Karavias, and Joakim Westerlund
13:45--14:15	Playing nice with others: Initializing your work with external configurations Sven Oliver Spieß
14:15--14:45	Break-Session (with Speakers Corner, Coffee Bar, Smoker's Lounge)
14:45--15:15	dstat: A unified framework for estimation of summary statistics and distribution functions Ben Jann
15:15--15:45	wikiviews---A Stata interface for the Wikipedia API Ulrich Kohler
15:45--16:15	Break-Session (with Speakers Corner, Coffee Bar, Smoker's Lounge)
16:15--17:00	Treatment-effects estimation with lasso Di Liu, StataCorp
17:00--17:30	Open panel discussion with Stata developers
17:30	End of meeting

Abstracts

Abstracts can be found in the printer-friendly version of the program (desug21_program.pdf) and on https://www.stata.com/meeting/germany21/

Scientific Organizers

The academic program of the conference is being organized by Johannes Giesecke (HU Berlin) and Ulrich Kohler (University of Potsdam)

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,

[Ulrich Kohler]

Dear all, we made some last-minute changes in the scheduling of the presentations. The changes concern the two slots before and after the lunch break. The new order of presentations is as follows:

11:00--11:30	Twostep Multilevel Analysis Using Stata Johannes Giesecke und Ulrich Kohler
11:30--12:00	xtbreak: Estimating and testing breakpoints in time series and panel data Jan Ditzen, Yiannis Karavias, and Joakim Westerlund
12:00--12:30	Break-Session (with Speakers Corner, Coffee Bar, Smoker's Lounge)
12:30--13:00	Lunch Break
13:00--13:30	Playing nice with others: Initializing your work with external configurations Sven Oliver Spieß
13:30--14:15	Bayesian vector autoregressive models in Stata Nikolay Balov, StataCorp

desug21_program.pdf: Corrected printer friendly version of the program