Writing Competition to Celebrate the International Year of Statistics

The Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society and Significance magazine are hosting a joint writing competition to celebrate the International Year of Statistics in 2013.

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. It is primarily a general interest magazine for statisticians, users of statistics, and all those interested in statistics. It is not a research journal, and articles are not peer-reviewed.

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.”

Articles should be clear, easy to read, and 1800–3000 words long. They can include tables, figures, images, and photographs.

The only stipulation is that you must be a student or within the first 10 years of your career. The article can be on work you have done, or it could explain the work of others. Only submissions in English will be considered.

The deadline to submit entries is June 1.

For details, visit the web exclusive article on the Significance magazine website.