Junior Statistician Los Angeles , California
Responsibilities
Under supervision of the Principal Statistician, our Junior Statistician will provide statistical analysis, data management and
consultation for projects in the UCLA Urology Research Core (UURC), which
includes projects across the UCLA School of Medicine campus and outside of
UCLA.
As our Junior Statistician, you will perform professional statistical work using a variety of standard statistical methods
and programming techniques in order to complete assignments; and perform other
related duties as required. Under the
direction of the Principal Statistician, you will assist investigators,
which include faculty, fellows, residents, medical students and fellow team
members, in planning research designs on observational and interventional
studies which may result in contracts or grants; determine from discussions the
purposes and objectives of various studies and implement data collection and
analysis strategies accordingly; with the Principal Statistician, meet with
investigators to discuss statistical analyses to meet their research aims and
objectives; summarize and interpret results to investigators after completion
of analysis sets.
Under supervision of the Principal Statistician, our Junior Statistician will provide statistical analysis, data management and
consultation for projects in the UCLA Urology Research Core (UURC), which
includes projects across the UCLA School of Medicine campus and outside of
UCLA.
As our Junior Statistician, you will perform professional statistical work using a variety of standard statistical methods
and programming techniques in order to complete assignments; and perform other
related duties as required. Under the
direction of the Principal Statistician, you will assist investigators,
which include faculty, fellows, residents, medical students and fellow team
members, in planning research designs on observational and interventional
studies which may result in contracts or grants; determine from discussions the
purposes and objectives of various studies and implement data collection and
analysis strategies accordingly; with the Principal Statistician, meet with
investigators to discuss statistical analyses to meet their research aims and
objectives; summarize and interpret results to investigators after completion
of analysis sets.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a health science field, such as epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, etc. strongly preferred
- At least 2 years working experience in a health science field, such as epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, etc.
- At least 2 years of experience with SAS
- Knowledge of univariate and multivariate statistics (i.e. linear regression, logistic regression, time to event analysis, repeated measures) for cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.
- Demonstrated proficiency in MS Word and MS Excel; knowledge of MS Access helpful.
- Experience in research study design and assessing appropriate statistical methods.
- Experience in designing data collection procedures and protocols.
- Experience in interpretation of statistical results and ability to convey results to investigator.
- Experience in data management, including data cleaning and variable creation.
- Experience in sample size/power calculations for various study designs and grant proposals.
- Skill in writing statistical methods and results clearly for publications in peer-reviewed journals.
UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
