2026 Northern European Stata Conference
Oslo, Norway, Thursday 24 September 2026
The 2026 Northern European Stata Conference will be held in Oslo, Norway at Oslo Cancer Cluster Innovation Park on Thursday 24 September 2026. The conference will start at 10:00, with registration from 09:30, and end at 18:00 (CEST).
This conference provides Stata users the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new applications of Stata. Anyone interested in using Stata is welcome. No level of sophistication is assumed for presenters or attendees. StataCorp representatives will attend, and participate in an open panel discussion.
To register, simply send an email to contact@statanordic.com with your information: name, affiliation, and institutional email address.
Presentation guidelines
Please let us know if you would like to make a presentation of your own. Presentations could focus on a topic of interest, including, but not limited to:
- using Stata for modeling and analysis
- user-written Stata programs
- using Stata for data management
- using Stata for graphics
- teaching Stata, or teaching statistics with Stata
- use of Stata in specific fields: applications and criticisms
- software comparisons
- Python or Java integration
- machine learning via H2O
- AI tools for Stata development
Submitting your presentation
Please email the scientific committee an abstract if you are interested in giving a presentation. Indicate whether you wish to give:
- 20 min talk (followed by a 10 min discussion)
- 10 min talk (followed by a 5 min discussion)
- Some other presentation
Include your name and affiliation. If your presentation has multiple authors, please identify the presenter. Presenters will be asked to provide the organizers with a copy of the presentation and any programs or datasets, where applicable, so that the materials can be posted on the StataCorp website and in the Stata Users Group RePEc archive.
Abstracts should be sent no later than June 15, 2026 to StataConferenceOslo@kreftregisteret.no.
The scientific organizers look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers, or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution.
Scientific committee
Paul C Lambert, PhD, Cancer Registry of Norway Norwegian, Institute of Public Health and Karolinska Institutet.
Arne Risa Hole, PhD, Universitat Jaume.
Christopher James Rose, PhD, Center for Epidemic Interventions Research, Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Morten W. Fagerland, PhD, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital).
Peter Hedström, PhD, Linköping University.
Logistics organizers and General Chair
The 2026 Northern European Stata Conference is jointly organized by Metrika Consulting AB, the official distributor of Stata in the Nordic and Baltic countries, the Cancer Registry of Norway at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital).
The General Chairs of the 2026 Northern European Stata Conference are Bjarte Aagnes, Cancer Registry of Norway at Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and Samuel Mossberg, Metrika Consulting AB. Questions or inquiries to the General Chairs can be sent to StataConferenceOslo@kreftregisteret.no.