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New Brunswick, NJ | United States

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Rutgers School of Public Health ( SPH ) is seeking a Temporary Research Assistant in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health ( SPH ). 

Principal Investigator, Dr. Lan Luo, is seeking a Temporary Research Assistant with strong computing and quantitative skills to manage and analyze DNA methylation datasets. The Assistant will assist with research projects related to conformal prediction and transfer learning in high-dimensional penalized regression models. The primary responsibility will be performing data management and statistical analyses of datasets with large numbers of observations and predictors. This position provides an excellent opportunity for a student interested in developing expertise in both methodological and applied research in statistics/biostatistics.

Among the duties for this position are:

• Download and preprocess DNA methylation datasets from various publicly available data sources.
• Analyze the datasets with some high-dimensional data analysis techniques such as sure independence screening and elastic net.
• Create tables and figures, and assist with the editing and preparation of manuscripts, publications, reports and presentations.
• Provide updates on research progress in an organized and timely manner.

City: Piscataway

State: NJ

Salary: $25/hour

Posting Number: 24ST0107

About Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities. As it was at our founding in 1766, the heart of our mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. Rutgers is New Jersey's land-grant institution and one of the nation's foremost research universities, and as such, we educate, make discoveries, serve as an engine of economic growth, and generate ideas for improving people's lives.

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