Abstract
The editors of the Stata Journal are pleased to invite nominations for their 2020 prize in accordance with the following rules. Nominations should be sent as private email to
1. The Stata Journal Editors’ Prize is awarded annually to one or more authors of a specified paper or papers published in the Stata Journal in the previous three years.
2. The prize will consist of a framed certificate and an honorarium of U.S. $1,000, courtesy of the publisher of the Stata Journal. The prize may be awarded in person at a Stata Conference or Stata Users Group meeting of the recipient’s or recipients’ choice or as otherwise arranged.
3. Nominations for the prize in a given year will be requested in the Stata Journal in the first issue of each year and simultaneously through announcements on the Stata Journal website and on Statalist. Nominations should be sent to the editors by private email to
4. Nominations should name the author(s) and one or more papers published in the Stata Journal in the previous three years and explain why the work concerned is worthy of the prize. The precise time limits will be the annual volumes of the Stata Journal, so that, for example, the prize for 2020 will be for work published in the annual volumes for 2017, 2018, or 2019. The rationale might include originality, depth, elegance, or unifying power of work; usefulness in cracking key problems or allowing important new methodologies to be widely implemented; and clarity or expository excellence of the work. Comments on the excellence of the software will also be appropriate when software was published with the paper(s). Nominations might include evidence of citations or downloads or of impact either within or outside the community of Stata users. These suggestions are indicative rather than exclusive, and any special or unusual merits of the work concerned may naturally be mentioned. Nominations may also mention, when relevant, any body of linked work published in other journals or previously in the Stata Journal or Stata Technical Bulletin. Work on any or all of statistical analysis, data management, statistical graphics, and Stata or Mata programming may be nominated.
5. Nominations will be considered confidential both before and after award of the prize. Neither anonymous nor public nominations will be accepted. Authors may not nominate themselves and so doing will exclude those authors from consideration. The editors of the Stata Journal may not be nominated. Employees of StataCorp may not be nominated. Such exclusions apply to any person with such status at any time between January 1 of the year in question and the announcement of the prize. The associate editors of the Stata Journal may be nominated.
6. The recipient(s) of the award will be selected by the editors of the Stata Journal, who reserve the right to take advice in confidence from appropriate persons, subject to such persons not having been nominated themselves in the same year. The editors’ decision is final and not open to discussion.
Previous awards of the Prize were to David Roodman (2012); Erik Thorlund Parner and Per Kragh Andersen (2013); Roger Newson (2014); Richard Williams (2015); Patrick Royston (2016); Ben Jann (2017); Federico Belotti (2018); and Matias D. Cattaneo (2019). For full details, please see Stata Journal 12: 571–574 (2012); Stata Journal 13: 669–671 (2013); Stata Journal 14: 703–707 (2014); Stata Journal 15: 901–904 (2015); Stata Journal 16: 815–825 (2016); Stata Journal 17: 781–785 (2017); Stata Journal 18: 761–764 (2018); and Stata Journal 19: 753–756 (2019).