ASA member, statistician, and marketing expert D. Anthony Miles recently won his 35th best paper award at the Fall 2025 Academy of Business Research Conference in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
He and his team won for their recently presented research paper, “Statistics Research: Social Media Rating Sites and Gender: A Nationwide Study on the Effects of Rate My Professors on Female Consumer Behavior.”
Miles has won a record 35 best paper awards for his applied statistics research. All are for his multivariate statistics research in marketing, economics, and business.
The Analytix Research Group team members include Miles, Joshua Garcia, Wanda Goodnough, dt ogilvie, Eniola Olagundoye, La’Shaun Seay, Robin Shedrick, and Nathan Tymann. Miles and his team presented at the virtual conference, discussing the influence of Rate My Professors on female college students as consumers of social media rating sites. This study is a continuation of their 10-year research on social media rating sites and consumer behavior.
Miles graduated with a degree in marketing from The University of Texas at San Antonio and went into the banking and consumer financial services industries. It was while working as a marketing analyst at Wells Fargo Bank that Miles discovered his interest in statistics, and his fascination grew during his doctoral program at the University of the Incarnate Word.
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