A position as statistician at Steno Diabetes Center, in the epidemiological research team is vacant. Full text below.
Further requests to me.
regards
Bendix Carstensen
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Bendix Carstensen
Senior Statistician
Steno Diabetes Center
Niels Steensens Vej 2-4
DK-2820 Gentofte
Denmark
+45 44 43 87 38 (direct)
+45 30 75 87 38 (mobile)
[log in to unmask] http://www.biostat.ku.dk/~bxc
www.steno.dk
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Statistician - Steno Diabetes Center
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A position as statistician is open immediately or as soon as possible in the epidemiological research group at Steno Diabetes Center.
The position is limited to 2 years, with the possibility of extension depending on continued funding.
Contents of the work will primarily be:
- Clinical follow-up studies based on databases with patient follow-up
data. These are non-randomized studies.
- Analyses of clinical and immunological data from the Danish Register
of Childhood Diabetes (one of our collaborators).
Requirements:
- A university degree in mathematical statistics or similar, at a
masters level.
- Willingness to contribute to research projects within epidemiology
and medicine, particularly in diabetes.
- Knowledge of analysis of follow-up studies (cohort studies).
- Knowledge of random effects models (variance component models) would
be an asset.
- Practical knowledge of one or more of the major statistical analysis
packages. The research group mainly uses SAS and R.
- Knowledge of a serious text formatting program would be an asset. We
mainly use LaTeX (MikTeX).
- Willingness to share your results with the scientific community
through presentations.
- Interest in contributing to the methodological development in
biostatistics and epidemiology.
- Some travel activity will be required.
We offer:
- Supervision by senior colleagues in statistics and epidemiology.
- Research environment in diabetes, particularly
diabetes-epidemiology.
- Possibility of scientific development through courses and
conferences.
- Smoke-free environment.
- Salary according to the agreement with public employers.
Application as soon as possible; interviews will be held in the first week of February 2009.
Further information and application:
Senior statistician Bendix Carstensen,
tel. +45 44 43 87 38, [log in to unmask]
Steno Diabetes Center,
Niels Steensens Vej 2,
DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark
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