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Young Statisticians Writing Competition

Young statistician have been invited to test their writing skills in an article writing competition.

The winning article will be published in Significance.

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

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,” said the organizers.

Length may be between 1,800 and 3,000 words long and may include tables, figures and photographs.

The style should be clear and easy to read, avoiding the formal layout of an academic report. Technical terms and mathematics should be used sparingly if at all, and be suitably explained. Everyone is welcome to enter, regardless of membership or affiliation.

But an entrants must be a student or within the first 10 years of a statisticians career.

Only submissions in English will be considered.

Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Closing date for entries is March 1, 2012.

Submissions should be emailed.

For detail, see the website

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