The Use of R in Official Statistics - uRos2025 - live
uRos2025 on-site event 24-26 November 2025
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Venue
The conference will be held at the National Institute of
Statistics.
Adddress: Bulevardul Libertatii 16, Bucuresti 030167, Romania
Agenda
24th of November: Tutorials
25th of November: Welcome message & Keynote speaker 1 & Sessions
of presentations
26th of November: Keynote speaker 2 & Sessions of presentations
& Closing remarks
Download the agenda, in brief: uRos2023_Agenda_brief_v9.pdf
Monday, 24 November 2025
09:00 - 09:45 Registration
09:45 – 10:00 Welcome message
10:00 - 12:00 Tutorial session I “Painlessly Improve Your Git History”
by Maëlle SALMON
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 15:00 Tutorial session II “Hands-on Bayesian Demographic
Accounting: A Practical Tutorial on the R Packages Behind the UK’s
Dynamic Population Model (DPM)” by Daniel WARD and Duncan ELLIOTT
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:30 Tutorial session III “Introduction to Network Analyses for
Official Statistics” by Mark van der Loo
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
09:00 – 09:30 Walk in
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote speaker 1 “Presentation – R packages, good vibes
only” by Maëlle SALMON
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 EMOS Session
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break and Group photo
14:00 - 15:00 Scientific session II Automating and Operationalizing,
Advanced Analytics and AI
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:45 Scientific session III Core Methods for Official
Statistics
16:45 - 17:45 Scientific session IV Data Access, Integration, and
Metadata
17:45 - 18:00 Handover to uRos 2026 Organizers 19:00 Official dinner
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
08:30 – 09:00 Walk in
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote speaker 2 “Presentation - Robust estimation with
survey data” by Tobias Schoch
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Scientific session I Sampling, Estimation, and Data
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30 Scientific session II Automating and Operationalizing,
Advanced Analytics and AI
14:30 - 15:00 Scientific session III Reproducibility and Open
Science
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:15 Scientific session IV Visualization, Mapping, and
Dissemination
16:15 Closing remarks
Download the agenda, in detail: Detailed_agenda_uRos2025_v9.pdf
Abstracts
You can browse all the accepted abstracts at https://uros.hopto.org/.
Download the book of abstracts: book-of-abstracts-uRos2025_v3.pdf
Official Dinner
25 November - 19:00
Restaurant SAVART
Address: Strada George Enescu nr. 2-4, București 010305, Romania
https://savart.ro/
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Day 3
Scientific Session Visualization, Mapping, and Dissemination
Madoyan HABET, Designing Effective Visualizations: Principles and Color in Practice
Fethi Saban OZBEK, Automatic Enforcement of Data Confidentiality in Official Statistics Using R Shiny
Tomasz JÓZEFOWSKI, The use of R tools to synthetize microdata using classical and differential privacy methods
Scientific Session Reproducibility and Open Science
Marcello D’ORAZIO, A framework for adopting/developing R packages that implement sound statistical methods for production of official statistics
scimetr: An R Package for Bibliometric Assessment of Countries, Institutions, and Researchers Using WoS Data
Scientific Session Automating and Operationalizing, Advanced Analytics and AI
Ibrahim Cagan KAYA, XML Generator R-Shiny Web App: Using Case in Central Bank of Malta
Bernhard MEINDL, How to build a statistics bot in almost no time?
Thomas DELCLITE, Seeing Red: Using R to Detect Survey Anomalies Before It’s Too Late
Antonio GROSSO, Using the EurostatRTool for generating Turkiye’s
Human Development dashboard
Scientific Session Sampling, Estimation, and Data
Lisa BORSI, Claude LAMBORAY, Lightning talk: Standardizing variance estimation in statistical production processes
Johannes GUSSENBAUER. Lightning talk: surveysd - Overview with a Focus on New Features
Igor KOŁODZIEJ, Mateusz IWANIUK, NMAR: An R Package for Estimation under Non-ignorable Non-response in Sample Surveys
Renato MAGISTRO, UnitMix: An R Package for Detecting and Correcting Unity Measure Errors via Gaussian Mixture Modeling
Nina NIEDERHAMETNER, vimpute(): An extension of the imputation methods in the VIM package
Marcin SZYMKOWIAK, Mapping poverty at the level of subregions using a univariate Fay-Herriot model
Tobias Schoch, Keynote Speaker, present “Robust estimation with survey data”
Day 2
Handover to uRos 2026 Organizers
Scientific Session Data Access, Integration, and Metadata
Ana-Maria CIUHU, Developing a Composite Index Prototype with R: An Application for SDG Monitoring
Horațiu-Gabriel TIBREA-MARCU, Spatial Interdependence of Firm Profitability in Romania: A Regional Econometric Analysis
Olav TEN BOSCH, The awesome official statistics software landscape: state of play and future directions
Mark VAN DER LOO, Robust and fast data synthesis with the synthesizer package
Scientific Session Core Methods for Official Statistics
Bogdan OANCEA, finitization: A New R Package for Efficient Approximation of Discrete Distributions
Anna SMYK, Review of (some) R tools for seasonal adjustment of high frequency data
Ivana LEVAČIĆ, Using FH model for estimating AROP rate in small areas in Croatia
Daniel WARD, dpmaccount: Fast and Flexible Bayesian Demographic Accounting in R with Template Model Builder
Violeta CALIAN, tRansparent deep/machine learners for official statistics
Scientific Session Automating and Operationalizing, Advanced Analytics and AI
Viktoria KIS, Erika LEE, Validating data on education finance using R: a user-friendly tool for national statistical offices
Reijer IDEMA, Research Software Engineering in Official Statistics
Younes SAIDAN, procR: An R Package for Fast and Intuitive Custom Cross-Tabulations of Microdata
Warm welcome to EMOS students!
Francesca TAMBURRINO, Partial Correlation Network Analysis of Well-being Indicators in Italian Provinces Using EBICglasso
Fahad FAYAZ, Impact of Globalization on Macroeconomic Statistics
Francesca DEL DUCA, Clusterwise Tensor GAM–NB for NUTS-3 Regional Air-Pollution Mortality in Italy
Maëlle SALMON, Keynote Speaker, present “R packages, good vibes only”
Welcome the first day of the conference
Day 1
The third tutorial delivered by Mark van der Loo on “Introduction to Network Analyses for Official Statistics”
The second tutorial delivered by Daniel WARD on “Hands-on Bayesian Demographic Accounting: A Practical Tutorial on the R Packages Behind the UK’s Dynamic Population Model (DPM)”
Wonderful tutorial delivered by Maëlle SALMON on “Painlessly Improve Your Git History”
Welcome message…
Waiting the participants…
Contact
We look forward to meet you in person at the premises of Romanian
NIS!
Conference venue: Statistics, 16 Libertatii Bvd., Bucharest 5,
ROMANIA
The conference secretariat can be reached via: urosconf [at]
gmail.com
Secretariat members
Ana Maria Ciuhu, National Institute of Statistics, Romania
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