Scholars,

As discussed at UseR! and the recent methods meeting, Simon Jackman and I
will be co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software,
devoted to political methodology.  This is a significant opportunity to
highlight (and garner recognition for) the large contributions political
methodologists are making to research computing.

best,

Micah Altman

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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:
        - a section explaining the statistical method implemented by the
software
        - a section explaining the code and algorithm
        - a section explaining how to use the software
        - examples of the actual code
        - examples of actually using the software

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

Formatting :

        We require for submission:
        + The article to bein PDF form
        + The software to be in ASCII source code form

        Prior to publication:
        + LaTeX or Sweave source for the article
        + Any included images should be sent as separate PDF files
        + 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 SSCORE is found at the URL:
        http://www.jstatsoft.org

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