Research Statistician (Part-Time)

Chapman University Careers • Irvine, CA

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About The Position

The Research Statistician will work in the area of psychosocial health. The position requires high-level expertise in psychology, research design, data preprocessing, and applied statistics. Key responsibilities include preprocessing data for analysis, performing complex data analysis, manuscript writing, publishing research findings in peer-reviewed journals, and mentoring junior researchers. This position requires an advanced degree (PhD [preferrable] or Masters) in a field related to research design and/or applied statistical analysis.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in a related field conducting inferential/applied statistics
• 4+ years of graduate-level research experience in psychology or a related field
• Experience with statistical software (e.g., SPSS , R, Stata)
• Advanced understanding of inferential statistical methods and applied data analysis
• Excellent scientific writing and public presentation skills
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple research tasks

Nice To Haves

• PhD preferred

Responsibilities

• Cleaning data extracted from medical records and/or RedCap survey software
• Restructuring data (e.g., going from wide to long or vice versa)
• Identifying and reporting data errors through descriptives and frequency statistics
• Calculating variables (e.g., sum scores, averages of scale items)
• Ensuring data align with codebook
• Conducting advanced statistical models (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling) to test hypotheses
• Writing up statistical findings in both paragraph and table/figure form
• Crafting manuscript sections (e.g., introduction, methods, results, discussion) to convey the research question, study design, and outcomes of the results
• Submit manuscript for publication in journal portal
• Guide other staff/students in conducting statistics (e.g., t-tests, linear regression)
• Guide other staff/students in creating tables for statistical results (e.g., bar graphs, line graphs)
• Participating in meetings that regard data processing (including format of the data needed to match codebooks)
• Participating in meetings that regard planning and interpreting statistical analyses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level