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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