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Work and study in Nottingham for a research degree in statistics with a salary in the range £11,199 - £13,599. > The Nottingham Trent University > Department of Mathematics, Statistics and OR > Department of Accounting > > Research Assistant Statistician > > Funding Issues in Local Government > > The Department of Mathematics Statistics and OR consulting group has > gained a contract with Nottingham City Council Treasury Department to > provide specialist statistical and research advice to the City Treasurer. > The project is to help investigate the methods of providing funding to > local government including the interpretation of existing multilevel > models. > > An excellent opportunity is available for a good honours graduate, with at > least an upper second class honours in statistics or equivalent subjects. > You will work on a three-year project, subject to satisfactory performance > after one year. The work will involve: > > * Research into central government funding of local authorities; > * Evaluating different options of funding and their impact on > Nottingham City Council; > * Interpreting and reporting both orally and in writing, official > reports written by the government; > * Using multilevel modelling and other regression techniques to help > explain the central government resource funding for the City Council; > * Identifying, fitting and estimating alternative multilevel models as > required by the City Council. > > You will have experience with using statistical packages such as Minitab, > SPSS or SAS, and preferably the MLWin package itself. You will be an > employee of the university, but for 4.5 days a week you will be based in > the City Council Treasury Department which is a short walk from the > university. The other half day a week will be spent in the consulting > group's offices at the university. You will be managed by a senior person > at the Treasury and by senior persons in the departments of Mathematics, > Statistics and OR, and Accountancy. > > You will have excellent interpersonal and presentational skills, and be > able to work with others in a team. The work will be of a research nature > and so the successful applicant will be encouraged to register for a > research degree. Appointments will be made on the research assistant grade > (£11,199 - £13,599). > > Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Neville Davies, Department of > Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research (phone: 0115 8482118, > fax: 0115 8482998, email [log in to unmask]) or Dr Alan Lovell, > Department of Accounting (phone: 0115 8482778, email: > [log in to unmask]). Closing date: 7 July 1999. Application forms may > be obtained from Personnel Services, Nottingham Trent University, > Nottingham NG1 4BU (0115 8486522). Interviews will be held during the week > ending 23 July 1999. > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%