Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
DIVISION OF PRIMARY CARE AND POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCES
MRC RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP IN EPIDEMIOLOGY, BIOSTATISTICS AND SOCIAL
STATISTICS
Due to late withdrawal of a candidate, we seek an enthusiastic and highly
motivated individual to join a prestigious and stimulating research
environment centred on the Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health and
Medical Statistics & Evaluation. The Departments’ focus includes
leading-edge work in epidemiology, spatial statistics and Bayesian
statistical methods, medical statistics, statistical computing, clinical
trials and meta-analysis. Candidates may apply for the studies listed below,
or submit other relevant projects, in discussion with an appropriate
supervisor. The studentship will commence in January 2000.
· Determination of the relationship between maternal haemaglobin, mean
corpuscular volume and birthweight and differentiation of anaemia from
plasma volume expansion *
· Heterogeneity in couple fertility: the use of frailty models *
· Bayesian methods for modelling variation in health indicators *
· Lifetime biological and social risk and protective factors in prediction
of adult health behaviour (smoking, drinking) *
· Early childhood health as a predictor of adult health *
· Transformation in the analysis of hierarchical medical data, with focus on
fetal monitoring #
· The detection, modelling and presentation of interactions with a
continuous covariate in medical and epidemiological studies #
· Comparison of methods for analysing repeated measurement data and problems
due to the presence of missing observations #
· Issues in the construction and use of fetal size and dating charts in
obstetrics, with special reference to inter-centre differences #
INFORMAL ENQUIRIES may be made to (*) Professor Paul Elliott (telephone 0171
594 3328; email: [log in to unmask]), or (#) Professor Patrick Royston,
Medical Statistics & Evaluation ([log in to unmask], telephone: 0181 393
3255).
APPLICATIONS (please state where you saw this advert): letter and CV,
including the names of two referees, to Mr Simon Sheffield, Departmental
Manager, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College School
of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG (email: [log in to unmask],
fax: 0171 402 2150, telephone: 0171-594 3317). Closing date: 19 October
1999.
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