Teaching Statistics announces C. Oswald George Prize

C. Oswald George was an eminent government statistician in the UK; one of the founders of the Institute of Statistics who served as Chairman orPresident. He donated a sum of money for the ‘best paper, especially submitted by younger authors, in the field of applied statistics’. The prize was subsequently attached to the Institute's own professional exams. After the formation of Teaching Statistics in 1979, the Institute made the prize money available for the best article in Teaching Statistics, and this prize has continued to be made available following their merger with the Royal Statistical Society. Dr. C. Oswald George died on 6 January 1974, and his obituary appeared on the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 137:457–458. The editors are pleased to be able to honour his legacy each year through the award of this prize to the ‘best’ article in Teaching Statistics.