Re-advertised
CENTRE FOR MEDICAL STATISTICS at KEELE
The Centre is searching for an able candidate to nominate for a CASE
studentship in Statistical Modelling
Applied to Trauma Systems Evaluation.
North Staffordshire is a major centre for research into Trauma Systems
and their Evaluation. The Centre
for Medical Statistics is closely involved with the local Trauma
Research Group.
The Centre is seeking to nominate an able student, with, or about to
receive, a good 1st class honours
degree in Statistics, or preferably, an MSc in Statistics, Biostatistics
or Medical Statistics, from a recognised
University.
The project will involve, inter alia, the development of appropriate
frailty models, parametric and non-parametric,
for the evaluation outcomes (mortality and survival) in the North
Staffordshire Hospital's Trauma (NSHT) database.
One aim of the study is to model outcome accurately when, as is usual in
trauma studies, the measured
covariate vector does not contain all of the important covariates.
In the case of non-parametric frailty, the resulting mixture may be of
unknown dimension and we aim to compare
the RJMCMC approach of Richardson and Green (1997) with more
conventional E-M approaches. The effect of the
use of non-parametric MLE procedures to impute missing values in the X
space - a common problem in trauma data -
will also be investigated.
The project will also involve the student in more practical work such as
comparing outcomes in the NSHT database
with other national databases (TARN, ICNARC etc) and facilitating good
statistical practice among the doctors
and nurses working in the Trauma Research Group.
Normal CASE studentship terms apply and the successful student will
have the usual EPSRC grant
supplemented (c£3000pa) by the North Staffordshire Trauma Research Group
in the North Staffordshire Acute
(NHS) Trust. The proposed starting date is October 1st 2001.
It is intended that the studentship will be based in the Centre for
Medical Statistics on Keele's pleasant 617 acre
rural campus which is 2/3 miles away from the Trauma Centre. However, it
is expected that the
student will enjoy spending periods of time working closely with the
trauma research team in the hospital.
throughout the project.
The Student will be jointly supervised by Prof. Gilbert MacKenzie,
Director of the Centre for
Medical Statistics, Keele University, Keele, and Dr. Peter Oakley,
Senior Trauma Consultant,
NS Hospital.
Students interested in this exciting project should address informal
enquiries in the
first instance to Professor Gilbert MacKenzie (details below).
Gilbert
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Prof. Gilbert MacKenzie
Director,
Centre for Medical Statistics
Keele University
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
England
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: (01782) 583651
Fax: (01782) 584268
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