Dear all,

            Please see the Student Paper Competition/Travel Award announcement to Attend the Joint Statistical Meetings to be held in Boston in 2014. Call info below:

Please send your inquiries, entries, and application material to me at ([log in to unmask]).

Policies, procedures, application deadlines can be found at the link mentioned below.

We look forward to a great student paper event!

http://www.amstat.org/sections/studentpaperawards.cfm

Student Paper Competition 2014

The Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Sections of the ASA are co-sponsoring a student paper competition on the topics of Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Students are encouraged to submit a paper in one of these areas, which might be original methodological research, some novel computing or graphical application in statistics, or any other suitable contribution (for example, a software-related project). The selected winners will present their papers in a topic-contributed session at the 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings. The Sections will pay registration fees for the winners as well as a substantial allowance for transportation to the meetings and lodging.

Anyone who is a student (graduate or undergraduate) on or after September 1, 2012 is eligible to participate. An entry must include an abstract, a six page manuscript (including figures, tables and references), blinded versions of the abstract and manuscript (with no authors and no references that easily lead to identifying the authors), a C.V., and a letter from a faculty member familiar with the student's work. The applicant must be the first author of the paper. The faculty letter must include a verification of the applicant's student status and, in the case of joint authorship, should indicate what fraction of the contribution is attributable to the applicant. We prefer that electronic submissions of papers be in Postscript or PDF. All materials must be in English.

Students may submit papers to no more than two sections and may accept only one section's award. Students must inform both sections applied to when he or she wins and accepts an award, thereby removing the student from the award competition for the second section.

All application materials MUST BE RECEIVED by Sunday, December 15, 2013 at the address below. They will be reviewed by the Student Paper Competition Award committee of the Statistical Computing and Graphics Sections. The selection criteria used by the committee will include innovation and significance of the contribution as well as the professional quality of the manuscript. Award announcements will be made by January 15th, 2014.

Inquiries and application materials should be emailed or mailed to: