The 7th International Conference: The Use of R in Official Statistics (uRos2019)

The 7th Conference on the Use of R in Official Statistics (uRos2019) will take place from 20 to 21 May 2019 at the National Institute of Statistics in the Bucharest, Romania. As satellite event, unconfUROS will be organised on 22th of May 2019.

The purpose of the conference is to provide a public forum for researchers from academia and institutes of statistics to present, exchange ideas and discuss developments in state-of-the-art statistical software commonly used in applied economics and statistics. The most focused debates are expected to be the use of R in Official Statistics.

The conference consists of a one-day tutorial session and a one-day scientific conference.

The participants are kindly asked to submit the abstract via e-mail to: anamaria.dobre [at] insse.ro

Tutorials will be 1.5 hours in length. Tutorials will be presented during the first day (Monday), during parallel sessions in the morning and in the afternoon.

Publication opportunities: Romanian Statistical Review or Austrian Journal of Statistics

Important dates:

12 April 2019: Deadline for abstracts submission

25 April 2019: Notification of acceptance

20-21 May 2019: Scientific conference & Tutorial sessions

22 May 2019: unconfUROS

15 June 2019: Deadline for paper submission

Registration: The conference fee is only EUR 100 thanks to the financial support of NIS Romania. Payments are accepted only through bank transfer.

Keynote Speakers:

- Julie Josse Member of RFoundation and Rforwards, Professor of Statistics at Ecole Polytechnique, France.

- Giulio Barcaroli, Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat).

Topics: Sampling and estimation, R in organization, Data cleaning, R in production: data analysis, Methods for official statistics, Shiny applications, Time series, Report and GUI programming, R in production: automation, Big data, Dissemination and visualization