2016 Young Statisticians Writing Competition (Funded to attend the 2016 Royal Statistical Society International Conference in UK).

Application Deadline: 28 May 2016

The rules are simple. Send us your best article, of between 1,500 and 2,500 words, on the subject of your choice. The article could be on work that you have done, or it could explain the work of others. The winning article will be published in the October 2016 edition of Significance and on significancemagazine.com. Runners-up will also be published online.

Competition rules

• Entrants must be students, or within the first 10 years of their statistics careers.
• Articles should be between 1,500 and 2,500 words long, and can include tables, figures, images and photographs.
• Writing style must be clear and easy to read.
• Avoid the formal layout of an academic report – the article should read like a magazine feature.
• Technical terms and mathematics must be used sparingly, and suitably explained.
• End references are optional, but should be limited to four.
• Only submissions in English will be considered.
• 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.
• The judges will be made up of representatives from both the Young Statisticians Section and Significance.
• Three finalists will win a one-day registration to the Royal Statistical Society International Conference 2016 in Manchester, UK – but please note that travel and accommodation costs will not be covered.
• The winning article will be published in Significance magazine, and online at significancemagazine.com.
• Runner-up articles will be published on the Significance website, or in Significance magazine, at the editor’s discretion.

Whatever you choose to write about, please follow these basic guidelines:

• Articles must be interesting, engaging and easy to read.
• Technical terms and mathematics must be kept to a minimum, and explained clearly where used.
• Readers should finish your article knowing more about statistics, or the application of statistics, than they did before.

Benefits

Three finalists will be invited to present their work at a special session of the Royal Statistical Society International Conference (5–8 September 2016, Manchester, UK) and that is where the overall winner will be announced.

How to enter 
Please email your submissions in a text/Word file or as a PDF, to significance@rss.org.uk.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the 2016 Young Statisticians Writing Competition