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• - 7.000 werknemers PhD position specialized in statistical modeling of long-term survival and cure. Placement • Amsterdam, NL Geplaatst 28 jul. 2026 Delen: Kopiëren Werkervaring 0 tot 2 jaar Full-time / part-time Full-time Functie Salaris € 3.059 - € 3.881 per maand Opleidingsniveau WO master Taalvereiste Engels ( Vloeiend ) Startdatum 1 februari 2027 Deadline 15 oktober 2026 Bouw aan je carrière op Magnet.me Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is offering a fully funded, four-year PhD position in statistics on survival analysis and extreme value theory, as part of the NWO-funded project "Seeing beyond the study duration: extreme value theory for long term survival and cure chances". Your function This project will develop statistical methods and theory for analysing time-to-event data when a fraction of the population is immune to the event of interest ('cured'). For example, in oncology the event of interest is cancer relapse/death, and the cured patients after treatment will never experience the event. However, in absence of a lifetime follow-up, cured patients cannot be distinguished from the uncured ones who do not show signs of the disease. A major constraint of most existing methods for cure models is the sufficient follow-up assumption, i.e. the study duration should be longer than the time span of possible events, which is rarely satisfied in practice. In this project, methods will be developed that relax this assumption by making use of extreme value theory (EVT) to extrapolate beyond the study duration. EVT has been well established for tail modeling and statistical inference on rare events that lie outside the range of the available data. Applications are foreseen in several fields, with a focus within this project on oncology and credit scoring for default prediction. As a PhD candidate, you will join a collaborative team of two PhD candidates and two senior researchers, Dr. Juan C...