Greek Stata Users Conference

The conference provides researchers working in Stata with an opportunity to:

EXCHANGE both new community written routines and Tips and Tricks developed for Stata;

DISCOVER new applications highlighting Stata 19’s potential capabilities for applied research;

MEET Stata users working in different disciplinary areas;

INTERACT directly with statisticians from StataCorp.

This year’s meeting will be attended by Jeff Pitblado, Executive Director, Statistical Software, StataCorp and Kristin MacDonald, Executive Director of Statistical Services, StataCorp.

Jeff Pitblado will be taking us “From data to tables using Stata“ 

Abstract:
This presentation is about building tables in Stata, featuring updates made to the collect suite of commands since the release of Stata 19.

The basic collect workflow is build, style, publish.

Commands btable, etable, table, and tabulate provide a simple syntax for building most tables of interest. More sophisticated situations call for the collect: prefix and arranging the collected results into a table via collect layout. New command collect fromframe provides a direct method for getting numeric and string values from a dataset into a collection.

Command collect style row split has a new option titles() which allows you to stack dimension titles and factor-variable titles above their levels. New style dimension header_cell_contents, for use in command collect style cell, provides better targeting of dimension titles, factor-variable titles, and their levels in row headers and column headers.

Finally, publish your table to a supported document type: MS Word, MS, Excel, PDF, LaTeX, SMCL, plain text, or Markdown

Kristin MacDonald will be throwing light on Stata 19’s causal mediation analysis command mediate:

Abstract:
Causal inference aims to identify and quantify a causal effect. With traditional causal inference methods, we can estimate the overall effect of a treatment on an outcome. When we want to better understand a causal effect, we can use causal mediation analysis to decompose the effect into a direct effect of the treatment on the outcome and an indirect effect through another variable, the mediator. Causal mediation analysis can be performed in many situations—the outcome and mediator variables may be continuous, binary, or count, and the treatment variable may be binary, multivalued, or continuous.

This talk introduces the framework for causal mediation analysis and demonstrate how to perform this analysis with the mediate command. Examples will include various combinations of outcome, mediator, and treatment types.

SUBMISSIONS:

For this first edition of the Greek Stata Users Conference, the Scientific Committee is particularly looking for:

1. New user COMMANDS / ROUTINES focusing on:
   • New estimation methods;
   • User written routines both short and long, developed simply to make life easier in Stata for our “Tips and Tricks” session;
   • Stata’s connectivity to external applications, such as Python, R or Java;
   • Reporting tools for the creation of dynamic dashboards or automatic internet publishing;
   • Data visualization;
      
2. APPLIED STUDIES exploiting the latest methodologies introduced in Stata 19 are also welcome.
    
3. POSTERS: the conference will feature a dedicated poster session aimed at Ph.D. students and early – career researchers. This session provides an opportunity to present ongoing work, preliminary results, or innovative applications of Stata in a more informal and interactive setting. Participants will have the chance to engage directly with conference attendees, receive feedback, and foster new collaborations. We especially encourage submissions that showcase novel methodologies, creative uses of data, or work in progress.

Ph.D Students/Researchers new to the concept of conference poster creation may find the NYU and Yale Universities guides particulary useful.
Stata related (licences, training, and Stata Press texts) will be awarded at the end of the conference to the three best posters.
Abstracts and Posters are welcome in both Greek and English.

DAY TWO OPTIONAL WORKSHOP

The second day of the conference will be dedicated to the following training course: Automating Your Research in Stata: “A Little Bit of Programming Goes An Awfully Long Way!” led by Giovanni Cerulli – National Research Council of Italy – IRCrES.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Stata users interested in participating in the conference are required to submit their proposals via email to the Scientific Committee at conference@tstat.it by the 1st December 2026. The accompanying e-mail should include the following information: the name of the author(s), affiliation, together with a current telephone contact, should we need to contact you.

Abstracts and presentations are welcome in both Greek and English. Please note that presentations are “normally” 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Longer presentations are also welcome, in such cases however, we ask that authors indicate the additional time required. Presentations for the Tips and Tricks session on the other hand can range from 5 to 25 minutes.

Authors selected for presentation by the Scientific Committee will be contacted directly by the 15th December 2026. The final version of the presentation should be submitted by the 15 January 2027.

Click Here to download the Call For Papers in PDF format.