Student Paper Competition - JSM 2010
Due December 18, 2009

The Section on Statistical Learning and Data Mining (SLDM) of the American Statistical Association is sponsoring a student paper competition for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings. Students are encouraged to submit a paper which might be original methodological research or analysis of data (from various fields including but not limited to pharmaceutical, genomics, bioinformatics, imaging, defense, business, public health) that uses principles and methods in statistical learning and data mining.

Selected winners will present their papers in a topic-contributed session at the 2010 JSM in Vancouver, Canada. At the session, they will be presented an award certificate and a check of $500. In addition, the winners will be invited to submit their papers to Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, the flagship journal of the SLDM section.

Graduate or undergraduate students who are enrolled in Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 are eligible to participate. The applicant must be the first author of the paper. An entry must include the following:

List of authors and contact information

Abstract with no more than 200 words

Manuscript - double-spaced with no more than 20 pages including figures, tables, references and appendix Blinded versions of the abstract and manuscript (with no authors nor references that could easily lead to author indentification) C.V.

A reference letter from a faculty member familiar with the student's work which must include a verification of the applicant's student status and, in the case of joint authorship, should indicate the fraction of the applicant's contribution to the manuscript.

All materials must be in English.

All application materials must be submitted electronically (pdf files are preferred) and must be received by 11 PM EST, Friday, December 18, 2009 at the email address below. They will be reviewed by the Student Paper Competition Award committee of the SLDM Section. The selection criteria used by the committee will include statistical novelty, innovation and significance of the contribution to the field of application as well as the professional quality of the manuscript. Award announcements will be made in late January 2010.

Inquiries and application materials should be emailed to:

Hernando Ombao
Associate Professor of Community Health
Co-Director, Graduate Program in Biostatistics Brown University
Student Paper Competition 2010 - SLDM
Email: sldm@stat.brown.edu