Young Statisticians Writing Competition
Course(s) Offered: Statistics Writing competition
Course Level: Contest / Competition
Provider: Significance Magazine
Country to Study in: Worldwide (online)
Scholarship Description
Are you lot an early-career statistician amongst the might to say data-driven stories inwards an entertaining too thought-provoking way? If so, nosotros invite you lot to go inwards the 2018 Young Statisticians Writing Competition.
“Early career” agency students or anyone inside the start 10 years of their statistical career – too then whether studying, lately graduated or already working, this challenger is opened upward to you. If you lot recollect you’ve got what it takes, too are inside the start 10 years of your statistical career, nosotros desire to listen from you.
This year’s challenger is underway. You are invited to go inwards our 2018 writing competition. As inwards past times years, the challenger is jointly organised past times Significance too the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society.
Eligibility
Competition rules:
Course(s) Offered: Statistics Writing competition
Course Level: Contest / Competition
Provider: Significance Magazine
Country to Study in: Worldwide (online)
Scholarship Description
Are you lot an early-career statistician amongst the might to say data-driven stories inwards an entertaining too thought-provoking way? If so, nosotros invite you lot to go inwards the 2018 Young Statisticians Writing Competition.
“Early career” agency students or anyone inside the start 10 years of their statistical career – too then whether studying, lately graduated or already working, this challenger is opened upward to you. If you lot recollect you’ve got what it takes, too are inside the start 10 years of your statistical career, nosotros desire to listen from you.
This year’s challenger is underway. You are invited to go inwards our 2018 writing competition. As inwards past times years, the challenger is jointly organised past times Significance too the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society.
Eligibility
Competition rules:
- Entrants must hold upward students, or inside the start 10 years of their statistics careers.
- Articles should hold upward betwixt 1,500 too 2,500 words long, too tin include tables, figures, images too photographs.
- Writing way must hold upward clear too slow to read.
- Avoid the formal layout of an academic written report – the article should read similar a mag feature.
- Technical price too mathematics should hold upward used sparingly, too suitably explained.
- End references are optional, simply should hold upward express to four.
- Only submissions inwards English linguistic communication volition hold upward considered.
- Manuscripts must hold upward master copy too non nether consideration for publication elsewhere, though nosotros welcome mag articles based on run inwards theses or inwards papers that direct maintain been submitted to or accepted past times academic journals, provided the 2 are sufficiently different.
- All articles volition hold upward assessed past times a review committee. The judges volition hold upward made upward of representatives from both the Young Statisticians Section too Significance.
- Three finalists volition win a one-day registration to the Royal Statistical Society Conference 2016 inwards Manchester, U.K. – simply delight Federal Reserve notation that go too accommodation costs volition non hold upward covered.
- The winning article volition hold upward published inwards Significance magazine, too online at significancemagazine.com.
- Runner-up articles volition hold upward published on the Significance website, or inwards Significance magazine, at the editor’s discretion.
Citizens of ALL countries
Participating Institutions
The Royal Statistical Society, RSS (Young Statisticians Section); AND
Significance Magazine (Published past times Blackwell Publishing Ltd, a society of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
Themes/Topics
It doesn’t affair what you lot direct to write about, too then long every bit you lot follow these basic guidelines:
- The article should hold upward interesting, engaging too slow to read.
- Technical price too mathematics should hold upward kept to a minimum, too explained clearly where used.
- Readers complete the article knowing to a greater extent than most statistics than they did before.
Three finalists volition hold upward selected
Scholarship benefits
Three finalists volition hold upward invited to introduce their run at a especial session of the Royal Statistical Society International Conference too that is where the overall winner volition hold upward announced. The winning article volition hold upward published inwards the Oct edition of Significance too online at significancemagazine.com. Runners-up volition too hold upward published online, at the editor's discretion.
Method of Application
Can you lot say a complex statistical floor inwards an entertaining too thought-provoking way? Then apply. The rules of entry are simple. Send us your best article, of betwixt 1,500 too 2,500 words, on the dependent land of your choosing. The article could hold upward on run that you lot direct maintain done, or it could explicate the run of others.
Please e-mail your submissions inwards a text/Word file or every bit a PDF, to significance@rss.org.uk. Make certain to include our challenger entry form.
DEADLINES:
The application closing appointment is 28 May 2018
PLEASE NOTE:
Note that go too accommodation costs volition non hold upward covered.
Each year, Significance too the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) host a challenger to promote too encourage top-class writing most statistics. However, this twelvemonth 2017, the challenger forms business office of the RSS Statistical Excellence Awards programme, too the prize has been renamed “The Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing”.
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is a learned lodge for statistics, a professional person torso for statisticians, too a charity which promotes statistics for Earth good. The lodge was founded inwards 1834 every bit the Statistical Society of London (LSS), though a maybe unrelated London Statistical Society was inwards beingness at to the lowest degree every bit early on every bit 1824. The associations were formed amongst the object of gathering information most society. It was many decades earlier mathematics was regarded every bit business office of the statistical project.
Application Deadline: 28 May 2018
Open to International Applicants: Yes
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