Meet Our Consultants
Shanna E. Smith, Ph.D., Consulting Manager (Statistics)
Technical Areas of Interest:
- Design and collection of questionnaire and daily activity data
- Analysis of longitudinal and non-independent data (e.g., from couples)
- Structural equation modeling
- Multilevel modeling
In-Person Consulting Sessions:
Summer 2008:
Mondays 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Wednesdays 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Thursdays 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Background:
Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 with an emphasis on methodology and statistics. She assists graduate student and faculty clients with grant applications, study design, measurement issues, basic and advanced data analysis, data presentation, and the writing of results; manages survey, program evaluation, and quality assessment projects for University departments and state agencies; and teaches workshops and short courses on research methodology and various statistical software packages. Statistical software packages she is most familiar with are: SAS/STAT, SPSS, AMOS, HLM, and MPlus.
Education:
Ph.D., Human Development and Family Science, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
B.A., Plan II and Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1996
See Dr. Smith's Vita
Michael Mahometa, Ph.D. (Statistics)
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.
In-Person Consulting Sessions:
Summer 2008:
Mondays 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Tuesdays 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Fridays 10:00am - 12:00pm
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
Erika Hale (Statistics)
Technical Areas of Interest:
- Tests for data normality
- T-tests
- Sign and sign-rank tests
- ANOVA and repeated-measures ANOVA
- Logistic regression
- Survival analysis
In-Person Consulting Sessions:
Summer 2008
Erika will be out for the summer. Her final shift is May 22; she will return in late August.
Education:
M.S., Statistics, Florida State University, 1993
B.S., Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1992
Matt Hersh, Ph.D. (Statistics)
Technical Areas of Interest:
- Regression, ANOVA, ANCOVA, Mixed Models, Repeated Measures
- Multiple testing techniques
- Bayesian methods
- Computational Analysis (MCMC, differential evolution, etc.)
In-Person Consulting Sessions:
By Referral Only
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. Dr. Hersh will assist 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
See Dr. Hersh's vita
Tim Eakin, Ph.D. (Mathematics)
Technical Areas of Interest:
- Non-linear systems
- Oscillatory phenomena
- Simulation and modeling
- Biomechanics
- Survival and longevity analysis
- Spectroscopy
In-Person Consulting Sessions:
Summer 2008
Mondays 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Background:
Tim Eakin received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D in biochemistry and chemistry from 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: mathematical packages (Matlab, Mathematica, 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