Hi all,

I am cross-posting here just in case there are people on either R-downunder or r-sig-mixed-models who are interested in this EOI and aren't on ANSTAT.


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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking expressions of interest to translate a published statistical method from SAS language to R language.



The method was developed by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) for estimating usual intakes of foods and nutrients from national nutrition survey data. Information about the method can be found on the NCI website: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/diet/usualintakes/method.html.



FSANZ plans to use the NCI method in the future but in R language for performing statistical analyses on Australian national nutrition survey results that may include up to 30 000 respondents.



Within the NCI method, FSANZ requires translation of both the "amount" and the "amount+probability" models.



The specific SAS Macros to be translated are the "Mixtran Macro" and the "Distrib Macro", these codes can be seen at: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/diet/usualintakes/macros_single.html



More specific requirements will be provided later to potential contractors following the completion of the expression of interest.



FSANZ intends to finalise contracts by the mid November 2013 for product delivery by end February 2014.



Please submit your expression of interest to FSANZ by cob 27 September 2013, with a brief description of why you are interested in this project, your experience in SAS and R programming and a CV; knowledge of statistics would be an advantage.



Please address inquiries and expressions of interest to:



Pierre Pouliquin

Food Standards Australia New Zealand

PO Box 7186 Canberra BC ACT 2610

55 Blackall Street Barton ACT 2601

+61 2 6271 2635

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Cheers

Michelle, note: I do not work Fridays.



Michelle Gosse

Senior Social Scientist BEHAVIOUR & REGULATORY ANALYSIS SECTION

154 Featherston St, Wellington 6011, New Zealand PO Box 10559, Wellington, New Zealand t  +64 4 978 5652 | f  +64 4 473 9855 www.foodstandards.gov.au<http://www.foodstandards.gov.au>





   A safe food supply which supports the health

        of people in Australia and New Zealand


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