North West Suburban Chicago, IL Openings: 4 Short Version: Candidate will do statistical analysis, statistical modeling, develop reports, to support decision making for Marketing campaigns to develop new credit card customers. Good communication skills required. Long version: Develop Logistic Regression and Discrimination analysis models for the Marketing Department to predict future utilization of use of credit cards by new cardholders. The analysis groped new cardholders in to segmentation groups on the basis of their prior credit history, the credit card offer that they responded to and the initial pattern of credit card usage. Consultant will develop multiple regression models to predict account profitability in the second year based on credit card usage on the basis of the users prior history and credit history, the credit card offer that they responded to and the initial pattern of credit card usage. Evaluate model adequacy and compared model results with! actual results in the test data set. Present results to marketing and analytics staff. Programming/analysis is using SAS, version 8 in a UNIX environment. Data is extracted from a Teradata Data Base. Required Skills: SAS version 8, UNIX, Excel. This is more of a super SAS user with a degree in Statistics then a straight SAS developer. Nice to have: MS in Statistics, Model Building experience, Experimental Design knowledge, familiarity with Optimization Techniques. Prefer candidates whom will consider a 6-month option to hire for 2 jobs and 2 jobs are very long term contracts. Please forward your resumes to Contact At: 703-994-4151 SAS version 8, UNIX, Excel Apply directly at: ?r=gad To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here