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Statistics Estonia invites students to participate in the competition for the young statistician’s grant

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Posted on 18 June 2014, 11:00
Once again, Statistics Estonia announces the competition for the young statistician’s grant named after Albert Pullerits. This year, the subject areas are population and social life.

All student papers in the field of population and social life that develop or use a statistical method are eligible for applying for the grant.

Students who have written a Master’s or Bachelor’s thesis, course or diploma paper and who are not older than 25 in the year of applying are all eligible to apply for the grant. The competition welcomes papers completed in 2013 or 2014.

The deadline for submitting the papers is 19 September 2014. Please send the papers to Statistics Estonia at the address Tatari 51, 10134 Tallinn and at the e-mail address: statistika [at] stat.ee (statistika[at]stat[dot]ee), keyword “Albert Pulleritsu preemia”. The name of the winner will be announced on the website of Statistics Estonia on 21 October 2014. The winner will be awarded an iPad.

More detailed information on the conditions of the competition has been provided on the website of Statistics Estonia.

The competition for Albert Pullerits Grant takes place for the fourth time. The grant was awarded for the first time in 2011, in relation to the 90th anniversary of Estonian statistics. Albert Pullerits was the first director of the Estonian State Central Bureau of Statistics established in 1921, and the founder of the official statistics system in Estonia.