New vacancy: Statistical Research Assistant in UK

Do you want to use your statistical skills to influence national and local policy on the care of critically ill patients?

Do you want to work with the largest high quality, clinical database (of over 1.6 million records) of critically ill patients in the UK?

Do you want to provide statistical advice on, and have practical input into, a host of methodological and evaluative research studies on the care of the critically ill?

Senior Analyst, Wholesale Modelling, Royal Bank of Scotland, London

If you are an enthusiastic and motivated analyst who brings real insight, we want to hear from you. Join us as a Senior Wholesale Credit Risk Analyst in our Risk Infrastructure function, and you’ll have the opportunity to create outstanding solutions for a diverse financial services business in a collaborative, recognition oriented culture.
Risk Infrastructure is the Chief Operating Office of the bank’s risk function. Within an independent division, we stand apart to create and maintain the framework which helps our colleagues to manage the risks they face effectively, and within bank and division appetite. This requires expertise in reporting, strategy, systems and change, and means we have a real responsibility throughout our businesses, and to our customers.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biostatistics, University of Oslo

This research fellowship provides full funding without any teaching requirements at a competitive salary for three years beginning as early as possible during 2015. The post holder will carry out leading edge research in statistical methodology related to the analysis of high-dimensional genomic data. Research theme for the postdoc will be statistical methods for high-dimensional clustered data. The fellowship is part of a project funded by the Norwegian Cancer Association.

The research group includes professor Magne Thoresen (http://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/magnet,http://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/groups/measurement-error-modeling), professor Arnoldo Frigessi (http://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/frigessi/,http://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/groups/stochastic-models/) and their postdocs and students. We also collaborate with the biostatistics group at the Department of Mathematics.

Four-Year PhD in Management at Surrey Business School (University of Surrey)

Aim

Our new premium doctoral programme comprises two years of high quality training and two years that focus on independent research. During this four year doctoral programme you will undertake a structured, supervised programme of scholarly research leading to a thesis that makes an original contribution to knowledge and is of a standard appropriate for publication in high-quality refereed journals.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Big Data and Community Health

The University of Michigan announces a one-year postdoctoral fellowship position. The position will start May 1, 2015.

Salary: $50,000 per year, plus a competitive benefits package and the opportunity to appoint and supervise one or more paid undergraduate research assistants to work on projects of your choice.

Segunda entrevista de "¿Trabajas como estadístico?" del 2015 con Mª del Mar Rodriguez

En este 2015 volvemos con "¿Trabajas como Estadístico?".  En esta ocasión tenemos la oportunidad de entrevistar Mª del Mar Rodríguez licenciada en Matemáticas, especialidad estadística. Actualmente trabajo como estadística en el Hospital Virgen de las Nieves de Granada.

La entrevista completa y todas las entrevistas  se publicaran mensualmente en el apartado  "¿Trabajas como estadístico?". Puedes consultar la entrevista integra en: http://estaidea.blogspot.com.es/p/trabajas-como-estadistico.html y si quieres participar en una de ellas y contarnos tu experiencia manda un correo a emnavarretem@gmail.com

Data Scientist, MoneySuperMarket in London

Moneysupermarket is the UK’s leading price-comparison site with over 18.8 million visitors in the six months to June 2013. It operates three market leading brands, Moneysupermarket, Travelsupermarket and Moneysavingexpert.

We help people to make the most of their money; In 2012 we helped UK households save £1 billion on a wide range of products and services from Motor Insurance to Package holidays,

With a market capitalisation of £750 million moneysupermarket is the leading Internet-only business on the London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 250. On its flotation in 2007 it was the World’s biggest Internet business IPO post-Google and remains the largest ever in the UK.

We are strongly profitable and have paid out over £30 million in shareholder dividends in the last 12 months.

Senior Analyst, The Office for Fair Access (OFFA) in Bristol

The Office for Fair Access (OFFA) is the public body that helps to promote and safeguard fair access to higher education for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. We are seeking to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Statistician, Operational Research or other such professional to lead our analytical work.

An improved evidence base and a robust approach to evaluation are critical in helping the higher education sector and partners to understand which of their activities are most effective and have the greatest impact on access, student success and progression. OFFA`s quantitative research to date has contributed significantly to the evidence base around this high-profile area of policy and we now need to develop this further. Our senior analyst will have significant opportunities to add to this evidence base: identifying priorities for research and producing reports which could change behaviour and spending patterns in the universities and colleges that we regulate.

Informático-estadístico para empresa enElche, Alicante

 El Grupo Soledad selecciona para sus oficinas centrales un informático-estadístico. Las funciones a desempeñar serían:

- Análisis de Competencia
- Estudios sobre precios de mercado
- Venta Online
- Estudio del comportamiento de los clientes
- Estrategias bursátiles para cambio de precios
- Gestión de Base de Datos

Más información en https://www.infojobs.net/elche-elx/informatico-estadistico/of-i0cd81bb171430daaf65cd635e37ec7

Postdoctoral fellowship at Universidad de Chile

Up to two postdoctoral fellowship are available at Universidad de Chile (Santiago) starting in June 2015, or by mutual agreement at any date thereafter. We are looking for applicants with interests in the broad areas of Discrete Mathematics, Optimization, Game Theory, or Algorithms.

Statistician, Sparx. Exeter, UK

As a Statistician at Sparx, you’ll be carrying out research and analysis into how technology can be used to optimise learning that will determine the future of how the next generation learns.

The scale of data you’ll be working with is big – one year group in one school generates 10,000 data points in just one day – and the rapidity of change, and potential for impact is vast.

You’ll be blending the use of maths, analytics, algorithms and your understanding of human behaviour on a daily basis to drive the development of the Sparx system and inform strategic decisions. Working together with our team of Content Scientists – our subject gurus – you will be developing engaging new ways to teach topics that unlock a whole new world of understanding for students.

La primera mujer matemática que ganó la medalla Fields, Maryam Mirzkhani

En el año 2014, la matemática iraní de 37 años Maryam Mirzakhani ganaba la Medallas Fields. Este galardón que por primera vez recibía una mujer es el equivalente a los premios nobeles para los matemáticos en activo menores de 40 años y que se conceden cada cuatros años en el Congreso Internacional de Matemáticas que organiza la Unión Matemática Internacional. 

Un mar de datos, Gapminder

Como definen ellos mismos en su web Gapminder es una empresa no lucrativa que promueve el desarrollo global sostenible y el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas por un mayor uso y la comprensión de las estadísticas y otra información sobre el desarrollo social, económico y ambiental a nivel local, nacional y mundial.

Esta herramienta presenta un gran número de gráficos que van desde el número de casos de VIH, la esperanza de vida, la mortalidad, las emisiones de CO2, la renta per cápita, consumo energético, etc. Son muchos los indicadores de salud que se pueden utilizar de esta plataforma para hacer gráficos sencillos sobre factores sociales, como la renta, la clase social, los condicionantes del lugar de residencia, la ocupación, etc  que pueden influir en la salud a nivel mundial.