Detail vacature 69951
Vacancy number 69951
Order number 13.2.213.007
Faculty Faculty Social Sciences
Description faculty The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences carries out
relevant scientific research of a very high quality and provides challenging
academic teaching in the fields of human behaviour and society. The Faculty’s
research and teaching contribute to a critical reflection on society, human
behaviour and their interconnection. More than 5.800 students follow a broad
range of undergraduate and graduate (academic and research) programmes,
set up by a collaboration of five departments: interdisciplinary social science,
sociology, methodology and statistics, pedagogical and educational sciences,
and psychology. As a result of the Faculty’s wide variety of programmes and
innovative and groundbreaking research, some 750 staff members have ample
opportunity to benefit from each other’s knowledge and expertise.
The Department of Methodology and Statistics participates in the
Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS). It
is the largest department in its field in The Netherlands. It has many excellent
researchers, its own MSc program “Methods and Statistics of Social and
Behavioural Sciences” and a large amount of external funding. The quality of
this department was rated as excellent by Quality Insurance Netherlands
Universities.
The department has a vacancy for a:
Title vacancy Post doctoral fellow on the project 'Improving statistical
power in studies on event occurrence by using an optimal design'
Hours a week 1,0 fte (fulltime)
Salary min. € 2.379.- and max. € 3,755.- gross per month
Job description This project is funded by a VIDI grant from the
Netherlands’ Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The postdoc will
spend time on doing research, and will be supervised by Dr M. Moerbeek
(www.fss.uu.nl/ms/moerbeek).
The central question in studies on event occurrence is whether and when
specific events occur. Examples are the age at which adolescents start
experimental smoking and the age at which children start exposing anti-social
behaviour. In such studies one can choose to measure study subjects
continuously or once each time interval. For the latter method of
measurement, optimal designs will be developed in this project. The aim of the
postdoc’s project is to develop sample size and power calculations for trials
that have continuous, rather than dichotomous, predictor variables and to
study the effects of categorization of these predictors. In addition, sample
size calculations will be performed for models with unobserved heterogeneity.
The post doctoral fellow will write papers in international scientific journals in
the field of applied statistics, and contribute to international conferences.
Qualifications
o PhD in applied statistics, biometrics, biostatistics, econometrics,
psychometrics or a related field with a solid background in applied statistics.
Preferably, the applicant's PhD thesis and past research focuses on power
calculations, optimal designs and/or (discrete-time) survival analysis. The
applicant should have publications in international peer-reviewed journals in
the field of applied statistics, or have proof that some papers are accepted.
o Applicants should be familiar with the generalised linear model, matrix
algebra, research designs and have experience with computer programming,
preferably in R.
o The applicant communicates easily in English, both verbally and in
writing.
Terms of Employment We offer a temporary fulltime position for one
year with -at good performance- the prospect of an extension of another year
fulltime. The gross salary ranges between € 2,379.- per month and maximum €
3,755.- per month (salary grade 10 of the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch
Universities). The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an
end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition there are other attractive
terms of employment. Start date: winter/spring 2010.
Contact Are you interested? For additional information about this position,
please contact Ms. Dr M. Moerbeek (supervisor), tel. (+31) 30 253 1450, e-
mail [log in to unmask]
Publication date 15-09-2009
Start date Winter/spring 2010
End date Winter/spring 2012
How to apply Please send your written application, with motivation,
curriculum vitae and addresses of two referees before November 15th 2009
and specifying vacancy number 69951. Applications can be e-mailed to:
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Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen
Dienst P&O
Attn. Mrs. W. Steinbusch
Postbus 80140
3508 TC Utrecht
The Netherlands
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