Deadline: July 15, 2010
Statistics Canada, The National Institute for Complex Data
Structures (NICDS) and MITACS announce up to three research
internship positions at the Methodology Branch within
Statistics Canada. Interested Ph.D. students who have
already passed the comprehensive exams at a Statistics
department of a Canadian university, or Postdoctoral students
affiliated with a Statistics department of a Canadian university,
are invited to send their applications (covering letter, CV,
and Application Form for Internship) by July 15, 2010 to:
Dr. Georgia Roberts
Statistics Canada
15 "J" R.H. Coats Building
Tunney's Pasture
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A OT6
georgia.roberts@statcan.gc.ca
Applications forms can be downloaded here:
English version in Word
English version in PDF
French version in Word
French version in PDF
Successful applicants will have the extremely valuable experience
of working at Statistics Canada in Ottawa for a period of four to
six months. The students will be involved in collaborative research
with Statistics Canada and university researchers including their
own supervisors. Research problems related to statistical methods
for any stage of a complex survey will be considered, although of
particular interest to Statistics Canada is the development of
analytic tools for analysing longitudinal data arising from complex
surveys. Some possible topics include: analysis of hierarchical
survey data, structural equation modelling of survey data, small
domain inference, analysis of duration data, and analysis of
incomplete survey data. An experienced methodologist from the
Methodology Branch will be assigned to work with each student
during the stay at Statistics Canada. This collaboration will be
mainly in the form of help for the more technical aspects of the
doctoral dissertation, in helping with the handling of the data
and in interpreting the results. Doctoral advancement and academic
supervision would be the responsibility of the applicant and the
thesis-supervising professor.
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