The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Prize.The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Prize of 40.000 DKK will be given to the young researcher who presents the best paper at the NordStat meeting to be held in Rebild Bakker, Denmark, 2006, provided that the paper is accepted (before or after the meeting) as a regular submission to the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (SJS). The editor of SJS must be informed that the paper is a candidate for the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Prize.To qualify as a candidate for the SJS Prize, the author must have received the Ph.D.-degree at most five years before the NordStat meeting or be younger than 35 years of age at the time of the meeting. The young author is preferably the sole-author of the paper, but if multiple young authors are involved, the paper will also be considered. There are no restrictions on nationality. Young researchers of any nationality are strongly encouraged to present their work at the NordStat 2006 meeting and to submit their papers to the SJS and for the SJS Prize competition. At the NordStat meeting in Stockholm 2002 the SJS Prize was given to Helle Sørensen for her outstanding paper on Simulated likelihood approximations for stochastic volatility models and her excellent presentation at the NordStat meeting in Grimstad, Norway 2000. The paper was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics volume 30. |