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• Full-time, 2 years, fixed term
• Enquiries: Professor Samuel Muller via email samuel.muller@mq.edu.au
• Applications Close: 20/10/2024 11:59 PM

This role is open to application by statisticians or data scientists who have a strong research interest and growing reputation in statistical modelling or cognate fields with demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary and/or applied research. The successful candidate will support the research of Professor Samuel Muller, Head of School, and will collaborate with members of his research group.

The successful candidate will be expected to make a vigorous contribution in one or more of the following research areas and contribute to the supervision of PhD and MRes research students as well as assist and/or lead statistical consulting activities:

• Developing model visualisation methods to enable interactive and dynamic model building;

• Robust selection and estimation in regression type models;

• Variable selection and inference for statistically challenging data, including for longitudinal, clustered and correlated univariate and multivariate responses;

• Investigating theoretical properties of regularization methods in various asymptotic scenarios and improving these methods by learning from resampling-based stability information;

• Classification and improved prediction methods for multiplatform data;

• Devising statistical methods for the analysis of multi-layered and structured data in bioinformatics, microbiome and neuroscience applications.

For more information and to apply, please see:

https://mq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CareersatMQ/details/Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow-or-Research-Fellow-in-Statistical--Modelling_R000016862-1?q=sam%20muller