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.

REGISTER HERE

Place: Virtual via 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
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Meet the Keynote Speakers

Featuring one of the most recognised names in the Stata community and expert insight direct from StataCorp, the 2026 Oceania Stata Conference brings together two exceptional keynote speakers.

Nicholas Cox: Some Graphical Tips for Stata Users

Nicholas Cox is a statistically minded geographer at Durham University. He works mostly with environmental data, secondarily with social science data. His interests include statistical graphics, exploratory data analysis, distributions, transformations, generalised linear models, directional data analysis, and the history of statistics. He contributes talks, postings, FAQs, and programs to the Stata user community. He has co-authored 16 commands in official Stata. He was an author of several inserts in the Stata Technical Bulletin and is an editor of the Stata Journal. His “Speaking Stata” articles on graphics from 2004 to 2013 were collected as Speaking Stata Graphics (2014). He also edits the Tips in the Stata Journal, intermittently collected in book form (most recently in 2024).

Aramayis Dallakyan: Introduction to Explainable Machine Learning Using Stata

Aramayis Dallakyan is a Senior Statistician and Software Developer at StataCorp LLC. His research interests lie at the intersection of high-dimensional time series, causal discovery, and statistical and machine learning. His work has appeared in leading venues in statistics, data science, and machine learning. Aramayis earned his PhD in Statistics from Texas A&M University.

New in 2026!

We will run parallel sessions from 1:25pm to 4:25pm (AEST) / 11:25am to 2:25pm (Singapore/Malaysia time). Participants will be able to move between:

- The Stata Room – covering developments in Stata and user-written commands

- The Research Room – covering applied use of Stata in research

We will also have The Learning Room, dedicated to those new to Stata or looking for guided instruction and practical tips.

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!