ASTRAZENECA funded PhD studentship at the UNIVERISTY OF LEICESTER
PhD studentship in medical statistics funded by AstraZeneca and open to
EU citizens.
Applications are invited for a three-year full-time PhD studentship in
the Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology at the University
of Leicester starting 1 October 2007 or as soon after as possible. The
project is entitled "Modelling phenotypic variation in large medical
databases using latent variables" and will look at theoretical and
practical problems that arise when latent variable and latent class
models are used with large clinical databases. The initial application
will be to the study of patterns of disease in a database of patients
with difficult to treat asthma.
Applicants should be interested in working on medical applications of
statistics and have at least a 2(i) Honours degree or a recognised
postgraduate qualification containing a substantial element of
statistics.
The Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology is part of the
Department of Health Sciences within the University's Medical School.
For more information about the Department, see our website at
www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences
The studentship is funded by AstraZeneca and the PhD student will have
the opportunity to visit AstraZeneca for a short period each year,
although they will be based at the University of Leicester. This
studentship is open to all EU citizens who speak good English.
For written details on the studentship or to obtain further information
please email the main PhD supervisor, Professor John Thompson at
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An application form can be downloaded from the University of Leicester
Graduate School at www.le.ac.uk/graduateoffice/.
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