International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS).
Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2017 (23:59 GMT+2).
To encourage more young statisticians to take an active interest in official statistics, the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is announcing its next annual competition for the best paper in the field of official statistics written by a young statistician. In addition to the monetary prizes, the first place winner will receive travel funds to present the paper at one of the sessions at the 61st World Statistics Congress in Marrakech, Morocco in July 2017.
We encourage submitters to address, and propose solutions to pressing methodological or strategic issues in the area of official statistics at the regional, national or international level. The paper must be ten or fewer pages in length, be submitted in English, and not have been previously presented in a public forum or published. An international panel will judge the papers based on the following criteria:
• Scientific and/or strategic merit;
• Originality;
• Applicability of the ideas in (practice of) statistical offices; and
• Quality of the exposition.
To be eligible, authors (and co-authors) must:
• Be under the age of 35 on 15 December 2016; and
• Be employed by an official statistical agency on 15 February 2017.
A maximum of three co-authors is allowed for a paper. An author can participate in only one paper.
The author or authors of the best paper will be awarded:
• A cash prize valued at €1,500 (divided among co-authors if applicable);
• Presentation of the paper at a session at the 61st World Statistics Congress, with airfare and hotel accommodation provided (for only one author in situations of co-authorship);
• Two years of IAOS membership; and
• A certificate of award from the IAOS acknowledging success in this competition.
Prize winning papers will be considered for publication in the Statistical Journal of the IAOS.
For more information: http://www.iaos-isi.org/index.php/statistics-prize
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Les candidatures pour participer à l'édition 2017 de la "Competition for Young Statisticians Prize" sont ouvertes jusqu'au 15 février prochain. Dans le cadre de cette compétition annuelle organisée par l'International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS), les jeunes statisticiens (moins de 35 ans) sont invités à soumettre des contributions originales de qualité (et en anglais), en matière de statistiques officielles.
Pour plus d'informations : http://www.iaos-isi.org/index.php/statistics-prize
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