PhD student position in Statistics

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The Department of Statistics http://www.stat.umu.se has openings for two PhD student positions within two multidisciplinary projects involving statisticians as well as medical and social scientists. Both projects, briefly described below, make use of register data to look at child health within a socioeconomic context. The PhD candidates are expected to collaborate with the members of the respective teams while developing relevant statistical methods within the department main research profile “Analysis of large datasets: models and methods for analyses with administrative registers and longitudinal studies”.
The successful candidates are expected to enter the PhD program on September 1, 2009.
Project 1: Monitoring and evaluation of a child health intervention program (Ref.No. 313-431-09). The PhD candidate will be involved in collaborative research within the research program “Microdata research on childhood for lifelong health and welfare”, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council, through the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM). In particular, the PhD candidate will work on developing methods using register and survey data with the aim to monitor and evaluate a child health intervention program. For more information contact Marie Lindkvist Marie.Lindkvist@stat.umu.se .
Project 2: Studies based on the linkage between the Swedish childhood diabetes register and socioeconomics registers (Ref. No.313-434-09). The PhD candidate will work within a research team working around the Swedish childhood diabetes register. For instance, the project will look at socioeconomics risk factors of type I diabetes and/or at the effect of getting diabetes on socioeconomics outcomes related to education and employment. Moreover, the PhD student will also work at developing novel methods to analyze register data. For more information contact Ingeborg Waernbaum, Ingeborg.Waernbaum@stat.umu.se .
For more information, see http://www.jobb.umu.se
Further information on the PhD program can be obtained by contacting Maria Karlsson, +46-(0)90-786 55 96, Maria.Karlsson@stat.umu.se or Xavier de Luna, +46-(0)90-786 55 59, Xavier.deLuna@stat.umu.se .
Union information is available from SACO, +46-(0)90-786 53 65, SEKO civil, +46-(0)90-786 52 96 and ST, +46-(0)90-786 54 31.
If you are applying for several positions, you need to send in one application for each position. Documents sent electronically should be in MS Word or PDF format.
Your complete application, marked with reference number, should be sent to jobb@umu.se or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive May 25, 2009 at the latest.

Publiceringsdatum
2009-04-27

Arbetstider och omfattning
Visstidsanställning 6 månader eller längre
Heltid

Ersättning
Fast lön
Individuell lönesättning

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2009-05-25
Ange följande referens när du ansöker: Se respektive befattning
Ansökan kan skickas till e-postadress: jobb@umu.se

Kontakt
Maria Karlsson, 090-7865596, maria.karlsson@stat.umu.se
Xavier de Luna, 090-7865559, xavier.deluna@stat.umu.se

Företag
Umeå universitet

Adress
Umeå universitet
90187 UMEÅ

Kontaktuppgifter
Telefonnummer: 090-786 50 00

Jobbnummer
440197

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