Oceania Stata Conference - Thursday 6 Feb 2025
The Modern Realm of Stata
Practical and Intuitive Statistical Applications in Professional Research and Data Science
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Welcome | |
| 9:10 AM | Davud Rosam-Afschar - University of Mannheim | Earning While Learning: How to Run Batched Bandit Experiments |
| 9:40 AM | Amy Grant and David White - SDAS | Be Bold: Use the open-source features of Stata to customise commands to suit your needs |
| 10:10 AM | Morning Tea | |
| 10:20 AM | Luis Eduardo - World Bank | Ensuring Reproducibility in Stata: Insights from the World Bank's Reproducible Research Repository |
| 11:05 AM | James Hurley - The University of Melbourne | Visualizing and diagnosing spillover within randomized controlled trials using diagnostic test assessment methods in Stata |
| 11:35 AM | Fernando Rios-Avila - Levy Economics Institute | JWDID |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:20 PM | Chuck Huber - StataCorp | Causal Mediation Analysis Using Stata |
| 2:20 PM | John Kane - New York University | Sharing Stata Knowledge Online: Existing Examples and Guidance on How to do it more effectively |
| 2:50 PM | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3:00 PM | Keng Siong - DBS Bank Singapore | Past Sovereign Defaults as a Predictor of Future Defaults |
| 3:30 PM | Chuck Huber - StataCorp | Developer Session |
| 4:15 PM | Jan Kabatek - The University of Melbourne | Single Precision Storage Default - Is it time to bid farewell? |
| 4:45 PM | Closure | |
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Andrew Gray is a biostatistician in the Biostatistics Centre, University of Otago, where he collaborates on a wide range of health-related research projects as well as pursuing his own research. Prior to this, Andrew worked in a knowledge engineering research group in the Department of Information Science, University of Otago.
Prof. Dr. John P. de New (formerly Haisken-DeNew) has been a Professorial Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, Australia since 2011. His research interests include: financial wellbeing, education, health, applied labour economics. He is a long-standing user of Stata and produces the data-extraction tool PanelWhiz, written for Stata, to allow users to extract data from complicated household panel datasets.
Bosco Rowland’s research, teaching, leadership and service experience focuses on developing and testing social behavioural principles on real world public health problems. He examines behaviours associated with health, social and emotional development and the role of risk and protective factors over the life course. His expertise incorporates the delivery and evaluation of randomised control trials (RCTs), process evaluations, and delivering and analysing large national and international longitudinal cohort studies. He has taught and published in the area of social and applied psychology, program evaluation, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. He has also taught a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate statistical subjects. His content area is health behaviours and social and emotional development and factors that prevent, promote and moderate these outcomes over an individual’s life course. He has worked in the University, not-for-profit and Government sectors and has held several strategic and leadership roles. He has project managed and strategically lead teams in the areas of intervention science, translational science and longitudinal cohort studies.