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Position Description
Job Title/Summary: Biostatistician
The Understanding Childhood Arthritis Network (UCAN) project is looking for a motivated Biostatistician/Epidemiologist to help lead the synthesis and analysis of data from a large international childhood arthritis project. You will be responsible for building data extraction pipelines and creating both tabular and graphical visualizations that will enable the discovery of clinically relevant biomarkers and expand knowledge of patient outcomes.
Job Details • Processing, cleaning, merging, and analyzing clinical, biological, and self-reported data that are being collected on thousands of patients from different studies • Building and maintaining data extraction pipelines to combine clinical data collected in real-time with biological measurements • Using computational tools (primarily R) to compile and communicate essential summary statistics and to discover and visualize structures and emerging patterns within the data • Collaborating with a variety of stakeholders including software engineers, biostatisticians, data scientists, investigators, and physicians to identify data challenges and propose solutions that will enable useful and appropriate statistical analyses
Required Skills • Strong knowledge of statistical concepts and techniques: data wrangling (data pulling, processing, and cleaning) with tidyverse; data visualization with ggplot2 and plotly; the ability to differentiate various data types and to conduct appropriate statistical inferences including hypothesis tests and regression models; model validations and result interpretation; generating analytical reports with R markdown • Strong knowledge of R is preferred, but candidates with advanced skills in other languages (e.g., Python) and a willingness to learn R will be considered. • Experience in extracting and managing a variety of data modalities including clinical and biological measurements • Knowledge in machine learning (e.g., dimensionality reduction, clustering, classification...) is an asset • Proven ability to communicate technical requirements and findings clearly to audiences with little statistical backgrounds • Academic background at a BSc or MSc level in a quantitative field such as biostatistics and statistics.
Contract, 1.0 FTE, 1 year + 1 day with modified benefits
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