The R Project - The Use of R in Official Statistics

R Project

- Romania Team

Call for papers

We are cordially inviting you to submit papers and to attend the International Conference New Challenges for Statistical Software - The Use of R in Official Statistics - uRos2016.

The conference will be held in Bucharest - ROMANIA, on 7-8 April, 2016.

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 selected research proposals/papers will be published in a special issue by the Romanian Statistical Review: www.revistadestatistica.ro. Publication decisions will be based an a standard peer-reviewing process.

Important Dates

Conference Date – 7-8 April, 2016

Abstract submission – 25 January, 2016

Notification of acceptance – 30 January, 2016

Complete paper due – 25 March, 2016

Registration deadline – 1 April, 2016

Scientific Committee

Tudorel ANDREI – National Institute of Statistics and Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

Matthias TEMPL – Statistics Austria & Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Ralf MÜNNICH – University of Trier, Germany

Risto LEHTONEN – University of Helsinki, Finland

Gergely DARÓCZI – Easystats Ltd, Budapest, Hungary

Lucian Liviu ALBU – Romanian Academy – Institute for Economic Forecasting, Bucharest, Romania

Gheorghe ZAMAN – Romanian Academy – Institute of National Economy, Bucharest, Romania

Valentina VASILE – Romanian Academy – Institute of National Economy, Bucharest, Romania

Dorin JULA – Romanian Academy – Institute for Economic Forecasting and Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania

Bogdan OANCEA – Nicolae Titulescu University and National Institute of Statistics, Bucharest, Romania

Monica ROMAN – Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Nicoleta CARAGEA – National Institute of Statistics and Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania

Ciprian ALEXANDRU – Ecological University of Bucharest and National Institute of Statistics, Romania

Adrian DUSA – University of Bucharest, Romania

Elena DRUICA – University of Bucharest, Romania

Nicolae-Marius JULA – Nicolae Titulescu University, Bucharest, Romania

Ana Maria DOBRE – National Institute of Statistics, Romania

Organizing Committee

Tudorel ANDREI – National Institute of Statistics and The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Nicoleta CARAGEA – National Institute of Statistics and Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania

Bogdan OANCEA – “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest

Ciprian ALEXANDRU – Ecological University of Bucharest and National Institute of Statistics, Romania

Adrian DUSA – University of Bucharest, Department of Sociology, Romania

Elena DRUICA – University of Bucharest, Department of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Romania

Marius Nicolae JULA – “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest, Romania

Ana Maria DOBRE – National Institute of Statistics, Bucharest, Romania

Registration

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

Conference registration fee is 100 EUR. The Participant registration fee includes:

Participation Certificate;
Entrance to all sessions;
Printed version of the conference proceedings published by the Romanian Statistical Review;
Conference bag;
Coffee breaks;
Lunch and official dinner on 7th April, 2016.

The payment details for EU and non-EU participants will me made to:
Universitatea Ecologica din Bucuresti
Bd. Vasile Milea, nr. 1G, sector 6, 061341, Bucuresti, Romania
VAT: 10240221
Bank: Groupe Societe Generale - Sucursala Academiei
Bank address: Bd.Ion Mihalache nr. 1-7, sector 1, 011171, Bucuresti
IBAN (EURO): RO39BRDE410SV28803184100
SWIFT code: BRDEROBU
Please state the name of the registered conference participant beneficiary of the payment and conference identifier code: RCO2016.

In order to confirm the payment of the Conference Fee we are kindly requesting that you send a scanned copy of the Bank Transfer Order, as a attached file (PDF or image gile), by e-mail: anamaria.dobre [at] insse.ro.

Programme

April 7, Thursday
12:30 - 13:00 Registration of participants
13:00 - 13:30 Welcoming Address and Open Session
13:30 - 15:30 Working Session
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break, Group Photo
16:00 - 17:00 Working Session
19:00 Conference DinneR (a map is available here: )

April 8, Friday
09:00 - 10:30 Working Session
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Working Session
13:00 Discussions and closing conference

Detailed programme is available here:

Venue & Contact

General information

  Address of National Institute of Statistics: 
  No.16 Libertatii Bvd., District 5, Bucharest, Romania 
  Telephone center: +4021 3181824; +4021 3181842 
  Fax: +4021 3124875; +4021 3181851; +4021 3181873 
  e-mail: nicoleta.caragea [at] insse.ro