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 to and attend the International Workshop New Challenges for Statistical Software - The Use of R in Official Statistics - uRos2014.

The workshop will be held in Bucharest-ROMANIA, on March 27, 2014.

The purpose of the workshop 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.

All the research proposals/papers will be published in a special issue in the Romanian Statistical Review: www.revistadestatistica.ro.

The papers presented at the workshop can be revised after the workshop and before being submitted to the Romanian Statistical Review. Publication decisions will be based on a standard peer-reviewing process.

Important Dates

Place - National Institute of Statistics, Bucharest, Romania

Date – March 27, 2014

Abstract submission and registration deadline – March 14, 2014

Notification of acceptance – March 17, 2014

Complete papers due – March 27, 2014

Scientific Committee

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

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

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

Professor Dorin JULA – Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania

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

Professor Monica ROMAN – Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

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

Associate Professor Ciprian ALEXANDRU – Ecological University of Bucharest, Romania

Lecturer Adrian DUSA – University of Bucharest, Romania

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

Dr. Marioara IORDAN – The Romanian Academy – Institute for Economic Forecasting, Bucharest, Romania

Assistant Professor Gergely DARÓCZI – Easystats Ltd, Budapest, Hungary

Organizing Committee

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

Mariana PIETREANU – National Centre for Training in Statistics, Romania

Bogdan OANCEA – “Nicolae Titulescu” University of Bucharest

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

Monica ROMAN – University of Economic Studies, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Romania

Registration

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

Participation to the workshop is free of charge and the coffee break will be provided.

Programme

09:00 - 10:00 Registration of participants
10:00 - 11:30 Open Session
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break, Group Photo
11:45 - 13:00 Working Session
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Working Session
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Working Session
17:00 - 17:30 Discussions

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