VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

The Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research is pleased to host the 2005 Census Research Data Center Conference. We invite you to join us on Thursday, October 27 the Research Conference will be held on the Cornell University campus in 109 Ives Hall from 1:00 to 7:00pm. Investigators will present papers based on current or recent projects carried out in a Research Data Center using confidential census data.
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The current version of R is R 2.1.1 (2005-06-20). R is a statistical package similar to S-Plus, but also provides some compatibility with Matlab (if package ‘Matlab‘ is installed). [More »]

CISER is offering a new workshop on using and managing confidential data.
The intended audience is faculty, research staff, or graduate students who anticipate using restricted-use or confidential data for their research projects.
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We have enabled the use of NX clients on all VRDC nodes. For more details, see the article on How to use the VirtualRDC and the linked guide.

“The 2006 International Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (micro) Data (CAED) Conference will be hosted at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in Chicago, IL on September 18 and 19, 2006. The conference is an opportunity for statisticians and economists from academia and government to gather and present new research results using business microdata. The aim of CAED 2006 is to provide a platform for comparing the newest research results and policy implications across countries. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• business demographics and performance – productivity, firm size, investment
• micro and macro data integration
• international comparisons
• geographic and industry studies
• labor economics – wages, market dynamics, job separation, internal labor markets
• technology use – ICT, innovation, R&D
• cooperation and competition
• employer-employee matched data
• data access and disclosure”

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