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THESIS AND DISSERTATION WRITING CONSULTANTS
AND EDITORS
Lynetta Campbell: SPSS, SAS, JMP, R, logistic regression, exploratory data analysis, engineering data analysis, linear modeling, quantitative modeling, quantitative forecasting, hierarchical modeling, regression methods, qualitative survey data, linear model analysis
B Collins: applied social psychology, research methods and assessments, communications, criminal justice, culture/ethnicity, empirical research, ethics/morality, health, interpersonal processes, organizational behavior, person perception, social influence, prejudice/stereotyping.
Brandy Cooper: APA formatting (6th edition), proofreading
Margaret Eaton: theology, classical Hebrew; Old Testament, Koine Greek, New Testament.
Vicki Lawrence: biostatistics, research methodologies, public health,
epidemiology research, data set management, NHANES.
Gary Michaels: Sociology, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Deviance, Social Control, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Problems, Qualitative Methods, Law Enforcement and Victimology.
Elizabeth Pearman: educational psychology, educational program evaluation, education research methods.
Wes Russell: Statistical Data Analysis, Mathematical Statistician, Business Data Analyist, Research Statistician, Analysis of Data, Statistical Consulting for Graduate Students.
Chris Tomei: Slavic studies, humanities, computational linguistics, linguistic theory, Russian, comparative literature, folklore, modernism and women's studies, international relations, comparative culture, indexer of scholarly books.
Barbara von Diether: research strategies, scholarly writing, education administration, education technology, secondary education, curriculum development, needs assessment, education leadership, instructional design, instructional media, advertising, business administration, business management, business and educational leadership training and development, communications.
INDEXER
Madge Wallace is a professional freelance indexer. She creates indexes found at the back of nonfiction books. When an index is done according to generally accepted indexing standards, it performs flawlessly. The reader finds what he is looking for and doesn’t give the index a second thought. On the other hand, if the index is poorly done, the reader becomes frustrated and will likely move on to the next book. Worse yet, a nonfiction book published without an index may not be taken seriously by the publishing industry. In short, a good index enhances the value of a book to readers, reviewers, librarians, instructors, and researchers. It is a mark of a serious book.
DR. JULIE OHLANDER earned a dual-title Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University and a M.A. in Demographic and Social Analysis from the University of California at Irvine.
She approaches research from an interdisciplinary background and has published on a variety of topics in public health, criminology, and sociology, including family structure and the risk of child abuse, tort reforms and physician sanctioning, the impact of education on attitudes toward deviance, and changes in suicide rates.
Dr. Olander specializes in mixed methods and longitudinal statistical analysis and has used survival analysis (i.e., Cox proportional hazards regression), time series regression, panel regression, Poisson and negative binomial regression, and logistic regression. She is also experienced in factor analysis, structural equation modeling, analysis of survey data, period effects, the handling of clustered/dependent observations, interaction effects, and descriptive statistics.
She teaches graduate-level Demographic Analysis courses and is skilled in demographic methods such as standardization, life tables, and cohort decomposition (cohort analysis). Her dissertation analysis on the decline of suicide in Sweden (1950-2000) was unique in that she combined qualitative methods (interviews) with attitudinal data from multiple waves of surveys and a variety of demographic and population data. She lived in Sweden as a Fulbright graduate student researcher to collect her data.
She uses U.S. and international population data sources and analyzes large, longitudinal data sets, including the World Values Surveys and the U.S. General Social Survey. Dr. Olander takes a hands-on mentoring approach with students and prides herself on making complex statistical analyses accessible to less-technical audiences.
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