JOB : Postdoctoral research assistant at Glasgow

[Mike Titterington]

A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Ref 129/01)

APPROXIMATE APPROACHES TO LIKELIHOOD AND BAYESIAN STATISTICAL
INFERENCE IN INCOMPLETE-DATA PROBLEMS

Applications are sought for a Post-Doctoral Research Assistantship (IA) at the
University of Glasgow. The appointee will be based in the Department of
Statistics, under the direction of Professor D. M. Titterington.  The 
appointment will be made on the standard IA scale of 16775 - 25213
and will be for up to 36 months, starting on October 1, 2001, or as soon 
as possible thereafter.  The post is funded by the UK Engineering and 
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

The research concerns an area in which algorithms such as the EM algorithm
and Markov chain Monte Carlo procedures can suffer from high computational
complexity and the appointee will investigate and extend variational and
other approximations that are currently available in the statistical and
neural-computing literatures.

Applications, supported by full curriculum vitae and the names  of three
referees, should be sent to Professor D. M. Titterington, Department of
Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, to arrive not
later than April 13, 2001. Informal enquiries and requests for further
particulars can be made to mike at stats.gla.ac.uk.




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D.M. Titterington,
Department of Statistics,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow G12 8QQ,
Scotland, UK.

mike at stats.gla.ac.uk
Tel (44)-141-330-5022
Fax (44)-141-330-4814
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~mike