Biostatistician: Advanced Data Modeling for Nursing Research

University of Texas at Austin; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 77,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing, seeks a Biostatistician to provide advanced statistical support for students and faculty. You will apply sophisticated modeling, data visualization, and data management practices to support routine and ad hoc requests, with emphasis on rigor and reproducibility.

You will design analytic components of research projects, write methods for manuscripts, and contribute to grant applications while collaborating with a diverse academic team on

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, or Data Science.
• At least 2 years of collaborative statistical experience in an academic setting.
• Proficiency with descriptive and inferential analyses, SEM, longitudinal analyses, and clinical trial data analyses.
• Expertise with open-source GUI-based statistics software (jamovi, JASP, PSPP).
• Expertise with R.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Performs advanced inferential statistical modeling and data visualization in support of sponsored research and scientific publication.
• Independently designs and conducts analytic components of research projects from analysis planning to results reporting.
• Creates original R code for custom analyses.
• Advises faculty and students on data analysis strategies.
• Supervises data analysis projects to ensure validity, rigor and reproducibility.
• Consults on data cleaning and management.
• Explains data analysis steps and outputs to faculty and students.
• Demonstrates data analysis in SPSS or similar GUI-based software.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

R programming

Collaboration

Communication

Data cleaning

Education

Master's degree in Statistics/Biostatistics/Data Science

Tools

R

jamovi

JASP

PSPP

Job description

The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing, seeks a Biostatistician to provide advanced statistical support for students and faculty. You will apply sophisticated modeling, data visualization, and data management practices to support routine and ad hoc requests, with emphasis on rigor and reproducibility.

You will design analytic components of research projects, write methods for manuscripts, and contribute to grant applications while collaborating with a diverse academic team on