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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://www.markvanderloo.eu/yaRb/2018/05/22/the-use-of-r-in-official-statistics-conference-2018/"> R – Mark van der Loo</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>On September 12-14 the 6th international conference on the use of R in official statistics (#uRos2018) will take place at the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb" target="_blank">Dutch National Statistical Office</a> in Den Haag, the Netherlands. The conference is aimed at producers and users of official statistics from government, academia, and industry. The conference is modeled after the <em>useR!</em> conference and will consist of one day of tutorials (12th September 2018) followed by two days of conference (13, 14 September 2018). Topics include:</p>
<li>Examples of applying R in statistical production.
<li>Examples of applying R in dissemination of statistics (visualisation, apps, reporting).
<li>Analyses of big data and/or application of machine learning for official statistics.
<li>Implementations of statistical methodology in the areas of sampling, editing, modelling and estimation, or disclosure control.
<li>R packages connecting R to other standard tools/technical standards
<li>Organisational and technical aspects of introducing R to the statistical office.
<li>Teaching R to users in the office
<li>Examples of accessing or using official statistics publications with R in other fields
<p><b>Keynote speakers</b><br>
We are very happy to announce that we confirmed two fantastic keynote speakers.</p>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.unine.ch/statistics/home/staff/matei-alina.html" target="_blank">Alina Matei</a> is a professor of statistics at the University of Neuchatel and maintainer of the important <a rel="nofollow" href="" target="_blank">sampling</a> package.
<li> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/jeroen" target="_blank">Jeroen Ooms</a> is a postdoc at UC Berkeley, author of many infrastructural R packages and maintainer of R and Rtools for Windows.
<p><b>Call for abstracts</b></p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aanmelder.nl/uros2018/wiki/312246/call-for-abstracts-and-tutorials" target="_blank">call for abstracts</a> is open until 31 May. You can contribute to the conference by proposing a 20-minute talk, or a 3-hour tutorial. Also, authors have the opportunity to submit a paper for one of the two journals that will devote a special issue to the conference. Read all about it <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aanmelder.nl/uros2018/wiki/312246/call-for-abstracts-and-tutorials" target="_blank">over here</a>.</p>
<p><b>Pointers</b></p>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.uros2018.org/" target="_blank">conference website</a>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/uRos2018" target="_blank">Follow uRos2018 on twitter</a>

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