Scholars,

A reminder, please send your submissions by January 15 if you wish to be
included in the special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software devoted to
political methodology. This is a significant opportunity to get credit for the
software you've written and to draw attention in general to the contributions
political methodologists have made to statistical computing.

best,

Micah Altman & Simon Jackman

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[2nd] Call for Software and Papers (CFP):

  *Statistical Computing in Political Methodology*,

        A special issue of the _Journal_of_Statistical_Software_


This special issue will focus on work in applied statistical computation that
advances political methodology. Submissions should include both an article and
a software component. The article may take the form of manuals, users' guides,
or other forms that describes the accompanying software and algorithms. Both
the article and the software will be peer-reviewed. The combination of the
parts should work as indicated, be clearly documented, and make a significant
contribution to the theory and/or practice of political methodology.

Submission information:

        Send the paper (as a PDF), with the source code (as ASCII, zipped) to
the editors:

                  Micah Altman ([log in to unmask])
                  Simon Jackman ([log in to unmask])

Key dates:

          Submissions are welcome through Jan 15, and will be reviewed in
          approximate order of arrival. Since there is no pre-determined
          page limit for this issue, we anticipate being able to keep
          submissions open until the deadline.

          + Deadline for Submission of papers: Jan 15, 2007
          + Deadline for Review feedback: May 15, 2007
          + Deadline Submission of final papers: July 15, 2007
          + Publication in JSS: Fall 2007 (expected)

Organization and Length:

          We expect that most submissions will include:
          - an explanation of the statistical method
          - an explanation of the software code and algorithm,
                  (with code exampels)
          - instruction on how to use the software, with examples

          The typical JSS article is fifteen pages (roughly 5000 words), not
          including source code. There is, however, no page or program size
          limit.

Formatting :

          For submission:
          + The article as a PDF
          + The software as source code

          Prior to publication:
          + LaTeX or Sweave source for the article
          + A software license permiting anonymous redistribution (GPL
          preferred)

          Also since it is well-known that reviewing software can be a real pain
          to aid review, we encourage submissions in the form of CRAN-ready
          R modules, or other standard modular forms.


* Information about the Journal of Statistical Software (JSS) *

The Journal of Statistical Software is a peer-reviewed journal of the American
Statistical Association focusing on the publication of software for statistical
computing and computational statistics in any discipline. JSS is indexed in Web
of Science, CIS, DOAJ, the BibTex Database, Scopus, and Google Scholar.  The
journal is published on-line, and replication code is archived with each
article.

A World Wide Web site for JSS is found at the URL:
          http://www.jstatsoft.org

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