Italian Stata Users Conference 2026 - Milan, 17–18 September 2026!
Aimed at promoting
@Stata community commands to a wider audience.
Day 1 (17 Sept) opens with Scott Cunningham (
@causalinf) discussing AI Agents for Research Workers: where coding agents genuinely help in the empirical workflow, where they mislead, and what that means for reproducibility.
The day continues with:
New Community community-contributed commands:
• xtthreshold — panel threshold regression with interactive fixed effects (Jan Ditzen, Yiannis Karavias & Joakim Westerlund)
• rdlasso — RDD with high-dimensional covariates (Marianna Nitti & Marco Ventura)
• bbandits — batched bandit experiments, ε-greedy & Thompson sampling (Davud Rostam-Afschar & Jan Kemper)
• wqsreg — the first Stata command for Weighted Quantile Sum regression (Marta Ponzano, Stefano Renzetti & Andrea Bellavia)
• catmetrics — 300+ association & forecast-evaluation measures for categorical data (Andrei Sirchenko & Konrad Wrębiak)
• stfform - Assessing the functional form of the Cox model (Daniele Spinelli and Rino Bellocco)
• fffuroot - implementing unit-root and stationarity tests with smooth breaks approximated by flexible Fourier form (Giovanni Bruno)
Tips and Tricks:
• adoadd - developed to control Stata’s ado environment (Jan Ditzen)
• Building Desktop Applications for Stata Using Python (Giovanni Cerulli)
Innovative ways to exploit the latest commands included in Stata 19:
• Beyond Evidence Synthesis: A Meta-Analytic Framework for Explaining Heterogeneous Dynamic Parameters (Maria Elena Bontempi)
• Bibliometric Analysis in Stata: Text Mining, Network Community Detection, and Unsupervised Learning (Carlo Drago & Gentian Hoxhalli)
• Optimal Policy Learning under Constraints in Stata (Giovanni Cerulli)
Joining us from
@Stata Kristin MacDonald on gsem and Di Liu on cate.
Applied work on microsimulation, latent transition analysis and public health mapping wraps up the meeting in the late afternoon.
Day 2 (18 Sept) offer a full-day training course: Modern Difference-in-Differences: New Problems, New Solutions, led by Scott Cunningham.
Detailed info @
bit.ly/4yzliZd
Registration closes 10 September 2026.
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