Computational Statistics - Call for Papers: Special Issue "Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing 2021"

Guest Editors: David F. Muñoz, Verónica A. González-López, and Jürgen Symanzik 

This special issue is devoted to the research that was presented at the V Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing (LACSC 2021). 

LACSC is the annual conference of the Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing (LARS-IASC). The main purpose of LACSC is to foster the progress of the theory, methods, and practice of statistical computing in Latin America. LACSC 2021 took place on April 19-21, 2021 under the topic “Statistical Computing for Intelligent Decision Making”.  

Topics that are of special interest for this special issue include research related to the theory, methods, application, and use of software related to statistical computing to solve real-life problems as presented at LACSC 2021.

Paper Submission 

Submissions related to keynote, invited, contributed, and poster sessions presented at the LACSC 2021 conference will be considered. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. Publication of a preliminary version of your article in the LACSC conference proceedings is fine. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to the submission guidelines of Computational Statistics. You can access them here: http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/180 (this opens in a new tab). 

Papers are submitted online at https://www.editorialmanager.com/cost/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab) 

Please use “S.I.: Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing 2021” as article type in the editorial manager system to make sure that your article gets assigned to this special issue (rather than being handled as a regular submission). 

Please forward the confirmation e-mail you receive from Springer to David F. Muñoz (davidm@itam.mx) upon successful submission of your manuscript so we can keep track of the articles submitted for this SI. 

Submission Deadline: August 9, 2021 

Please contact davidm@itam.mx, veronica@ime.unicamp.br, or juergen.symanzik@usu.edu for queries.