Dear all,
the Young Statisticians and Significance announce the following writing competition:
Calling all budding writers within the first 10 years of their statistical career!
· Do you have an idea for an interesting article which would be suitable for Significance?
· Have you always wanted to try your hand at writing in a more journalistic style?
· Are you good at interpreting data?
Then why not write an article and submit it to our competition?
Closing date: 1st March 2012.
Eligibility: You must be a student or within the first 10 years of your career.
Language: English
Prize: The winning article will be published in Significance. Runner-up articles will be published on the Significance website, or in Significance at the editor’s discretion.
Please email your submissions, in Word or as a PDF, to [log in to unmask]
We hope you enjoy writing your piece !
More details on the writing competition:
Significance is published by the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association, and is for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. It is primarily a general interest magazine for statisticians, users of statistics and all those interested in statistics. It is not a research journal, and articles are not peer-reviewed (see www.significancemagazine.org/).
Articles should be accessible to a wide and non-specialist audience and should be about an area or application of statistics that is of broad relevance or has an important and topical application, in a way that lives up to both meanings of the tagline “Statistics making sense”. Articles should be between 1800 and 3000 words long and can include tables, figures and photographs. Their style should be clear and easy to read – avoid the formal layout of an academic report – and technical terms and mathematics should be used sparingly if at all and suitably explained. End references are optional, but should be limited to three or four at most.
The article could be on work that you have done, or it could explain the work of others. Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere, though we welcome magazine articles based on work in theses or in papers that have been submitted to or accepted by academic journals, provided the two are sufficiently different.
All articles will be assessed by a review committee made up of representatives from both the Young Statisticians Section and Significance.
with the best wishes,
Oliver Ratmann
on behalf of the Young Statisticians of the Royal Stasticial Society
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