Guidelines for Thesis Writing - MSC in Statistics

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

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.
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