To encourage more young official statisticians to take an active interest in the activities of the IAOS, the Executive Committee has set up a bi-annual prize for the best paper in the field of official statistics written by young official statisticians.
Author(s) of the best paper will be given an economy return air fare, hotel accommodation and an allowance to attend the next upcoming ISI bi-annual conference in Sydney, 5 - 12 April 2005. If they are not yet an IAOS member, their membership will be paid for the next two years.
There is no restriction with respect to the topic. The paper may not exceed ten pages. The paper will be judged by an international panel with the Vice Presidents Pali Lehohla as the Chair and Ida Stamhuis as a member. Other members are IAOS IP session organizers.
Quality of the exposition.
The decision of the panel will be final.
be prepared to travel to Sydney in April 2005 to present the paper.
Submission of papers for the 2005 prize is now called. If you are interested, please send your paper, preferably in MSWord format, to Ida Stamhuis at stamhuis@few.vu.nl. If you have questions, you can contact her.
The deadline for the submission is 06 December 2004.
The winner will be announced by the end of February 2005 and will have the opportunity to present the paper in one of the IAOS sessions, at the 55th ISI Session in Sydney.