Doctoral Grant Statistical experimental design for large-scale experimentation in marketing and product development

The University of Antwerp is a knowledgecentre, with 3400 co-workers, conducting ground-breaking and innovativeresearch of international standing. The university takes special care to ensureoptimal support for and supervision of its students and pays constant attentionto innovation in education. The university is an autonomous pluralistinstitutio n that is committed to the enhancement of an open, democratic andmulticultural society. It actively pursues an equal opportunities policy.

The Faculty of Applied Economics has a full-time vacancy(m/f) for a Doctoral Grant at the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Sciences for the project Statistical experimental design for large-scale experimentation inmarketing and product development

Job description. You will prepare a Ph.D.thesis of the research project described below. In doing so, you will apply forexternally funded research grants. You will contribute to the research of theDepartment and to resulting publications. You may be involved in some limitedteaching- related activities in the field of the Department.

Project description. The project is concerned withthe construction of programs of experiments in marketing and industry. Theseare used to study the impact of various factors on a response variable. Thesettings of the factors are often chosen according to a so-called orthogonalarray. In this project, several methods will be explored to find arrays forlarge numbers of factors with various numbers of settings. Also, methods forarranging these arrays in subsets will be sought. This is because, in marketingexperiment s, each respondent has to evaluate a separate subset. In industrialexperimen ts, subsets are important too, because it is usually only possible tomake small numbers of observations under homogeneous conditions.

Profile and requirements. You have a Mastersdegree or equivalent in commercial engineering or a field related toMathematics or Statistics. Your teaching and research qualities are compatiblewith the policies of the University of Antwerp. You can provide evidence of an excellentacademic record. You can express yourself well in written and spoken English.You share our enthusiasm for scientific research.

Our offer. We offer a full-time position,under the conditions of the Dehousse grants, as a doctoral fellow for twoyears, with the possibility of renewal for a further two-year period afterpositive evaluation. The expected date of appointment is October 1st, 2007.Students in the final year of their degree course are allowed to apply.

More information. Prof. dr. P. Goos (Peter.Goos@ua. ac.be, tel: 03/2204059 ),and Prof.dr. E. Schoen (Eric.Schoen@ ua.ac.be,tel: 03/2204095 ).

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