Announcement of Student Paper Awards and Travel Grants

The 20th Annual ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium will offer Student Paper Awards and Travel Grants to encourage student members of ICSA to participate and present their research work at this annual meeting.

 

Qualification: The applicant must be an ICSA member at the time of manuscript submission, a degree candidate in any term during the academic year 2010-2011 at an accredited institute and be able to register and present the research work at the 2011 symposium.

 

Requirement Manuscript: Manuscript should be prepared double spaced using Biometrics or JASA guidelines for authors. Excluding tables and figures, the manuscript must be no more than 20 pages using at least one-inch for all margins and no smaller than 12-point font. The research work must be relevant to application in a variety of fields including biomedicine, finance, business, etc. The manuscript may be co-authored with a faculty advisor and/or a small number of collaborators, although the student must be the first author.

 

Submission of Manuscript: Manuscript should be received no later than April 1, 2011. The submission should include:

· A cover letter;

· A separate title page with author(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers and email address;

· A separate page of abstract;

· A blind copy of the manuscripts without author information or affiliation;

A copy of the ICSA membership application form for non-members.

(Membership application/renew forms can be found from http://www.icsa.org. )

 

All materials should be:

Send by email to     Dr. Mengling Liu at mengling.liu@nyu.edu;

Or send by mail to:             Dr. Mengling Liu

Division of Biostatistics,

New York University School of Medicine,

650 First Ave, New York, NY 10016

 

Review and selection process: Members of the Student Award Committee and J.P. Hsu Memorial Scholarship Committee will receive blind manuscripts from the Committee Chair and review them based on the following criteria:

The manuscript should be well motivated by an application to the specific field(s);

The methodology developed should be applicable to the motivating problem. Inclusion of an application to a practical study will be favorably considered;

Organization and clarity of the presentation will be considered as well.

 

Awards: Up to 4 award winners will be selected by the committees. Each winner will receive a winning certificate of $400, and tuition for one short course of his/her interest. Winners will be notified around April 30, 2011.