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Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology or related field.

The Department of Epidemiology is seeking a part-time OPS Biostatistics Analyst. This position will be responsible for verifying and cleaning longitudinal datasets and merging behavioral, clinical, and biomedical variables. This individual will assist the PI with aligning data formats and statistical assumptions. This position is key to driving innovating health sciences research throughout the department and will work with a variety of collaborators to collect, analyze and interpret conclusions for data.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Verify and clean longitudinal datasets, merge behavioral, clinical, and biomedical variables
• Implement reproducible data pipelines in R and SAS/STATA (data dictionaries, code versioning).

• Design and implement a spectrum of analytic approaches, including:
  • Cross-sectional and multivariable analyses
  • Longitudinal mixed-effects models (linear, generalized linear) to evaluation change over time
  • Data-science techniques such as random forests, gradient-boost trees, LASSO/elastic-net regularization, and unsupervised clustering to uncover complex, high-dimensional patterns
  • Dimensionality-reduction techniques such as PCA, t-SNE, UMAP and feature-selection pipelines to prepare data for predictive modeling.
• Validate models via cross-validation, bootstrapping, and by assessing model assumptions and diagnostics.

• Generate publication-ready figures and tables with appropriate statistical annotations
• Draft methods sections for manuscript and grant proposals

• Coordinate with the Bioinformatics Analyst, Graduate Research Assistants, and Faculty to align data formats and statistical assumptions
• Attend weekly team meetings and present analytic findings 

$25 - $35 per hour; salary is competitive and commensurate with education and experience.

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology or related field.

Master’s degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology or related field. 

Prior exposure to clinical studies, especially longitudinal designs.

In order to be considered, you must upload your cover letter and resume. 

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.

Schedule: This is a part-time position at 20 hours per week. Hours may be flexible within the week but are expected to happen between normal business hours of Monday-Friday between 8am and 5pm.

If an accommodation is needed to apply for this position, please call 352-392-2477 or the Florida Relay System ate 800-955-8771 TDD. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the U.S. Searches are conducted according to Florida’s Sunshine Law.