Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition(USPROC)

Welcome to the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition

Submission Deadline for the 2013 Competition: May 15, 2013

    The CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education - www.causeweb.org)
    is glad to announce its fourth biennial undergraduate statistics project competition (USPROC).
    The purpose of USPROC is to encourage the development of data analysis skills, to enhance presentation
    skills, and to recognize outstanding work by undergraduate statistics students.

    Starting in the year 2013, there will be two types of undergraduate Statistics Project Competitions:

• Undergraduate Statistics Research Project Competition (USRESP):
  This competition is for undergraduate students who conduct research projects that are statistically related, either methodological or applied. The types of research projects may include research work from REU research projects, senior capstone research projects, or independent research projects that are not based on a specific course that students are taking.
   
• Undergraduate Statistics Class Project Competition (USCLAP):
  This competition is for undergraduate students who are taking an applied statistics course(s) at introductory, or intermediate levels, in which class project is part of the course work (either required or optional).

   Some general rules applied to both competitions

• A project can only be submitted to either USRESP or USCLAP.
• A student can be an author or a co-author of only one project submitted to the two competitions.
• If the number of submitted projects for a competition is less than 15, the Competition Committee reserves the right of selecting less than three winning projects for that competition.
• In addition to the monetary awards, the winning project author(s) will be invited to prepare a 5 to 10 minutes 'virtual' posters to be posted on CAUSEweb. The first place project from each competition will be invited to give a 15 to 20 minutes webinar presentation of their winning project.
• If data are collected on human subjects, it is the responsibility of author(s) or their sponsor instructor(s) to ensure that IRB approval is secured from their institution.