Ever since 1985, the Department of Statistics at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan has been engaged in a large number of projects and programmes aimed at the improvement of statistical education in the country. These include (a) statistical competitions for students, (b) statistical exhibitions, and (c) workshops for lecturers and assistant professors working in various intermediate and degree colleges of Pakistan (Habibullah, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2001). The year 1997 witnessed the very first efforts of the Kinnaird College Statistics Department to expand the statistical competition to the worldwide community of students/young adults (Habibullah, 1999). The competition entitled "Data Analysis Talent Award (DATA)" invites students to indulge in projects involving collection and analysis of real-life data, and to write comprehensive reports regarding their projects.
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