p-values, fixed effects vs random effects, power of a study etc.
Statistician Interviews
Statistician Interview Questions
"When you interview for a position as a statistician, you can expect to be asked about your knowledge of statistics, analytical and critical thinking skills, and your ability to draw conclusions from gathered data. Prepare to answer situational questions that may require you to analyze a set of data and explain its meaning or design an experiment to gather important statistical data. Your employer will want to make sure you can use your theoretical knowledge of statistics to solve hands-on, real world problems."
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Talk about past project experience
Given this data, if you were trying to assess the effectiveness of this drug in the presence of these other confounding variables, what would you do/what sort of model would you fit?
Questions ranged in topics from basic probability theorems to survival analyses.
Describe a project where you had the most difficulty to produce the desired result or output. What did you do to overcome it and produce the best quality product/service?
What was the biggest dataset you have worked on?
Pretty much like others. What is the p-value, the mean and variance?
statistical methods for modeling data with thousands of variables.
Nothing was unexpected but I found the last question little bit confusing
Case study. Ask me to use statistical method to help making fundraising decision
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