Anthony Carra shares the lessons he has learned over time from running his own consulting business.
A Statistician's Life
A Conversation with Doug Zahn: The Power of Conversation in Consultation
Doug Zahn’s students inspired him to write a book detailing the consulting course he taught at Florida State University. We chatted with Zahn recently to find out more about the book and how it can help consultants.
A Conversation With Sally C. Morton: Excellence in Health Policy Statistics
The International Conference on Health Policy Statistics has played a vital role in the dissemination of statistical methods in health policy and health services research. In preparation for the next conference, we’re running a series of interviews with previous Health Policy Statistics Section award winners. This month, we feature a conversation between Sally C. Morton and Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar.
Negotiating Fair Compensation
Statistical consultant Steve Simon offers tips for getting the compensation you deserve.
Statistical Consulting Clients: How to Get Them and How to Keep Them
Melissa Kovacs offers tips for building and maintaining a client base as a statistical consultant.
Things I Wish I Knew at the Start of My Career in Academia
Experienced statisticians offer advice for advancing your career in academia.
Amanda F. Mejia
Amanda F. Mejia started with limited financial resources at her disposal, but pursued scholarship and fellowship opportunities and earned her master’s as an industrial engineer. She soon discovered she wanted to learn more advanced analytical techniques and work toward a positive societal impact, so she returned to graduate school. As a professor today, she strives to emphasize the “why” of statistics before the “how” and to bring research problems into the classroom.
Stephanie S. Shipp
Stephanie started out wanting to be a lawyer, but quickly found that economics and statistics were what she preferred. Upon graduation, she applied for and accepted a full-time job at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and built on a federal career from there. Currently, she is developing an interdisciplinary team of statisticians and social and behavioral scientists to create and advance data science for the public good.
Jeri Mulrow
Jeri Mulrow turned in her first statistics book after the semester thinking it was boring. Her college adviser insisted she take more statistics classes, however, including regression, analysis of variance, and design of experiments. She was hooked after that. Today, Mulrow has more than 30 years of experience in applied statistics, working in various occupations and for several federal agencies. She and her husband recently set up a scholarship fund in statistics and data science at Colorado State University, their alma mater.
Laura Hatfield
Laura Hatfield grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, as a classic nerdy kid interested in math and science. She began college on a pre-med route, but while doing medical research at Johns Hopkins, she learned she wanted to design studies and analyze data. After several years immersed in health policy research, she co-founded the Heath Policy Data Science Lab with Sherri Rose at Harvard.