Oceania Stata Conference 2026
Oceania Stata Conference 2026
Advancing Statistical Methods and Features with Stata
Thursday 5th February 2026
Live on Zoom
In collaboration with Survey Design and Analysis Services (SDAS), the Stata distributor for Australia/New Zealand/Indonesia) and the 2026 Scientific Committee, Columbia CP is pleased to announce the Oceania Stata Conference for 2026.
The Future of Stata in Oceania Gathers Here
Share, learn and engage with leading Stata users from around the world. Learn new methods and techniques; and hear how leading researchers use Stata in their journey of discovery and exploration of data.
Stata:
- Empowering Academia, Business, Government, and Learning.
- A stable analytics platform providing automation, visualisation, reproducibility and reliability for everyday and specialist analytics.
- Your research. Your data science.
Call for abstracts
We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Oceania Stata Conference 2026. We invite submissions showcasing the application of Stata in research, methodological presentations discussing or proposing innovative methods in Stata, and technical presentations utilising Stata to advance research outcomes. We welcome presentations from all fields of research that demonstrate advanced and proficient use of Stata. We are particularly interested in presentations pertaining to the following themes:
- Novel and innovative applications of Stata
- Development of new techniques in Stata
- Programming and automation using Stata
- Contemporary use of Stata 19 features, e.g., Machine Learning via H2O, Conditional Average Treatment Effects (CATE), Bayesian Variable Selection for linear regression, Meta-analysis for correlations, etc
Abstracts should be a single page of not more than 250 words and must be submitted as .PDF by 15 December 2025.
New to OSC - Swift Stata Stories
A Swift Stata Story is a 5-minute presentation on an interesting use of Stata or your community-contributed Stata command. A prize will be awarded for our favourite story!
he Oceania Stata Conference 2026 Scientific Committee invites you to submit your concept. A concept should be no more than 1 paragraph describing your intended presentation. If your concept is accepted, you will be invited to prepare a 5-minute recording. This might include 3-5 PowerPoint slides, or a poster, or live use of Stata. Recorded presentations will be shown at the conference. Foreign languages e.g., Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaya, Mandarin, Maori, Tagalog or other are welcome; however, translations must be available, and the initial concept must be written in English.
The Committee will select the winning Swift Stata Story which will be announced on the day. Submissions will be judged on clarity of presentation; novelty of the use of Stata; and general interest.
Concept submissions should be a single paragraph of not more than 100 words and must be submitted as a .PDF by Monday 15 December 2025.
Please stay tuned for further updates on important dates for the conference. We look forward to your valuable contributions to make the Oceania Stata Conference 2026 a resounding success!
Registration Details:
Place: Live on Zoom
Date: Thursday 5 February 2026
Time:
9.00 am – 5.00 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
7.00 am – 3.00 pm (Singapore / Malaysia time)
Cost: FREE
Check the meeting time zones at: The World Clock Meeting Planner
Scientific Committee
Arul Earnest, Monash University
Professor Earnest is a senior biostatistician with the Biostatistics Unit & deputy head, Clinical Outcomes data Reporting and Research Program (CORRP) at Monash University, where he leads the analytics group for several clinical registries. His research interests include Bayesian spatio-temporal models and machine learning. He enjoys conducting workshops in Stata.
Mark Chatfield, The University of Queensland
Mark Chatfield is a biostatistician at The University of Queensland, Australia. He collaborates with researchers in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences and the Clinical Trials Centre. He has used Stata exclusively for over 20 years, published 5 times in The Stata Journal, and has released 8 user-written Stata commands (table1_mc and blandaltman are the most downloaded).
Rosmaiza Abdul Ghani, Universiti Teknologi MARA
Dr. Rosmaiza is an academic and researcher at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia, where she coordinates the Postgraduate Studies Centre. A PhD graduate from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, she specializes in globalization, trade, migration, and poverty. With over a decade of expertise in Stata, she has used it as her primary tool for data analysis across multiple publications and research grants exceeding USD 96,000. An accomplished author, she has written two economics textbooks and a PhD motivation book. Honoured to serve on the Oceania Stata Conference Scientific Committee, she is committed to advancing data-driven research for socioeconomic impact.
Siew-Pang Chan, National University of Singapore
As a lifelong learner, Siew-Pang Chan holds a doctoral degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering, and four master’s degrees in Decision Sciences, Medical Statistics, Financial Engineering and International Law. Currently an Assistant Director at the National University Heart Centre (Singapore), he is a key member of Cardio-Informatics under the Cardiovascular Research Institute. He has published over 250 articles in academic journals to date, and held teaching appointments in Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States. As an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Behavioural & Implementation Science Interventions, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Siew-Pang focuses on bridging the implementation-evidence gap, and translating empirical research into practical impact in healthcare and policy.
Nyi Nyi Naing, University of Sultan Zainal Abidin
Nyi Nyi Naing works as a lecturer at faculty of medicine. He is medically trained and specialized in public health medicine then sub-specialized in Biostatistics. His core teaching includes medical statistics, research methodology and statistical software application in medical research. He utilizes STATA software in his teaching and research.
We look forward to making the Oceania Stata Conference 2026 a resounding success!
