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Click on a name for more information. Statistics ConsultantsNate Marti, Michael Mahometa, Lindsay Chilek, Erika Hale, Matt HershScientific Computation/Mathematics ConsultantTim EakinNate Marti
Appointment Availability: M 10:00am - 12:00pm, W 12:30 - 2:30pm, TH 3:00pm - 5:00pm Background: Dr. Marti received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. He was a consultant with an earlier incarnation of the University of Texas statistical consulting services followed by a five year stint with the Community College Survey of Student Engagement where he served as a research associate and associate director. He has served as the manager of statistical and mathematical consulting with the Division since September 2008. His research and research collaboration has included student engagement, persistence patterns in community college students, eating disorder prevention, and meta-analysis of program effectiveness. He is most familiar with the following statistical software packages: SPSS, SAS, HLM, MPlus, and R. Education: Ph.D., Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 2001; B.A.S., Cognitive Science, The Evergreen State College, 1994 Michael Mahometa
Appointment Availability: T 10:00am - 12:00pm, W 3:00pm - 5:00pm, F 12:30pm - 2:30pm Background: Dr. Mahometa received his Ph.D. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2006. His major course work was completed in Behavioral Neuroscience, with a minor in Statistics. He is currently in training to help assist undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in study methodology, data analysis, data presentation, and result writing. He is most familiar with the following statistical software packages: SPSS, SAS, StatView, SuperANOVA. Education: Ph.D., Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 2006; B.S., Psychology, University of Scranton, 1998 Lindsay Chilek
Appointment Availability: M 3:00pm - 5:00pm, T/TH 12:30pm - 2:30pm Background: Lindsay received her Master of Science degree in Statistics from Texas A&M University in 2004. Upon graduation, she opened her own consulting business conducting data analysis primarily for public sector clients. Lindsay has worked at Mindwave Research, a marketing research firm, as a marketing scientist and also served as adjunct faculty at St. Edward’s University teaching introductory statistics courses to business students. She is most familiar with the SPSS statistical software package. Education: M.S., Statistics, Texas A&M University, 2004; B.B.A., Marketing, Texas A&M University, 2000; B.S., Agribusiness, Texas A&M University, 2000 Erika Hale
Appointment Availability: W/TH/F 10:00 - noon
Background: Erika received her Master of Science degree in Statistics from Florida State University in 1993. After graduating, she joined Merck, Inc. as a statistician on Phase I, II, and III clinical trials. She then worked for a contract research organization on numerous statistical projects for clients in the pharmaceutical industry. She has been a statistical consultant for the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation since September, 2007 and has taught SPSS for the UT Summer Statistics Institute. Erika is most familiar with the SPSS and SAS software statistical packages. Education: M.S., Statistics, Florida State University, 1993; B.S., Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1992 Matt Hersh
Appointment Availability: None scheduled. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to set up a meeting. Background: Dr. Hersh received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Kentucky in 2007. While obtaining his degree, he was in the microarray core facility where he worked with researchers from various medical fields to help design and analyze their experiments. He also received a master's degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, in 2000. As part of SSC's Graduate Fellows Program, Dr. Hersh assists graduate students in analyzing data, preparing the results, and presenting conclusions for faculty members around campus. The statistical software packages he is most familiar with are SAS and R. Education: Ph.D., Statistics, University of Kentucky, 2007; M.P. Aff., LBJ School of Public Affairs, 2000; B.A., Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993 Tim EakinTechnical Areas of Interest: Non-linear systems, Oscillatory phenomena, Simulation and modeling, Biomechanics, Survival and longevity analysis, Spectroscopy Appointment Availability: M 12:30pm - 2:30pm, T 3:00pm - 5:00pm Background: Dr. Eakin received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D in biochemistry and chemistry from California Institute of Technology (CalTech). In addition to having done extensive research in several natural science and engineering areas, he has many years of experience in mathematical consultation, grant proposal development, database management, training and supervision of graduate students on numerical computation software, and teaching workshops and short courses focused on computational methodology. He is familiar with multiple software packages including the mathematical packages Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple on Unix and Windows platforms. He also holds an adjunct Research Scientist position in the Kinesiology and Health Education department where his recent research has centered on signal analysis in oscillatory biological and biomechanical systems. Education: Ph.D., Biochemistry and Chemistry, Caltech; B.S, Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin; B.S, M.A., Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin; B.S., Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin |
Technical Areas of Interest: T-test, Regression, ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA, Analysis of longitudinal data, HLM, Cluster and latent class analysis, Meta analysis, Analysis of complex survey data
Technical Areas of Interest: Design and collection of data for experiments in the behavioral sciences, T-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA (independent and dependent designs), Regression (including OLS, logistic, and multinomial logistic)
Technical Areas of Interest: T-tests, Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis, ANOVA and repeated-measures ANOVA, Linear and logistic regression
Technical Areas of Interest: Tests for data normality, T-tests , Sign and sign-rank tests , ANOVA and repeated-measures ANOVA , Logistic regression, Survival analysis
Technical Areas of Interest: Regression, ANOVA, ANCOVA, Mixed Models, Repeated Measures, Multiple testing techniques, Bayesian methods, Computational Analysis (MCMC, differential evolution, etc.)