Guidelines for Thesis Writing - MSC in Applied Statistics and Data Analytics

Guidelines for the Thesis

Thesis Writing - Instructions

1. The thesis must be written in English.
2. The following formatting guidelines must be followed for the text:

• Font: Times New Roman, size 12.
• Line spacing: 1.5.
• Character spacing: expanded 0.5.
• Text alignment: justified.
• Printing: double-sided from the Table of Contents onwards (book format).
• Each chapter starts on a new right-hand (odd) page, while the previous page must be numbered, even if it is blank.
• Each section does not necessarily start on a new page. Avoid leaving large blank spaces.
• The first chapter must always be the Introduction.
• Each list (Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures) starts on a right-hand page, while the previous page must be numbered, even if it is blank.
• References should follow this format and be placed after the Appendices (if any):

Cox, D.R. and Hinkley, D.V. (1974). Theoretical Statistics. Chapman and Hall, London.

Tsiatis, A.A. (1982). Repeated significance testing for a general class of statistics used in censored survival analysis, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 77, 855-861.

Tsiatis, A.A. and Kim, K. (1993). Group Sequential Methods for Survival Analysis, Short Course, Joint Statistical Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.

Wang, S.K. and Tsiatis, A.A. (1987). Approximately optimal one-parameter boundaries for group sequential tests, Biometrics, 43, 193-199.

• The preliminary pages must be in the following order:

 English Cover Page, Greek Cover Page, Dedication (optional), Acknowledgements, Vita, English Abstract, Greek Abstract (Περίληψη), Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Plots

• Attention! The preliminary pages must follow the exact format provided by the Department (see the file at the link: Initial Pages of the Master’s Thesis in Greek and English).

3. Page Numbering Guidelines

• Page numbers must be centered at the bottom of the page.
• In the preliminary section, numbering starts from Acknowledgements in uppercase Roman numerals, including blank pages.
• The main body of the thesis starts numbering from Introduction with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3...).
• If there are Appendices, they are placed at the end but are not numbered separately.
• The Introduction must be printed on a right-hand (odd) page, with the preceding left-hand page numbered with the last even Roman numeral.
• The last page of the thesis must be blank. If the document formatting does not naturally create a blank final page, one must be added manually.