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Expert in Statistical Consulting, Assessment and Evaluation Consulting
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Expert has expertise in statistical data analysis and statistical packages, including statistical methods for engineers, industry, and biological and medical sciences. His major research area is statistical experimental design, and he has taught applied as well as theoretical aspects of experimental design courses. He has helped automotive companies computer companies to design experiments in Taiwan as well as in the United States. Expert teaches and conducts research in design of experiments.
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Statistical process control has been the area of Expert's expertise which he has used most in helping clients in recent years. He has diagnosed and solved quality problems as well as set up quality control programs to meet quality standards for automotive companies. On a recent consulting project, he helped an automotive company to improve their eight-cylinder engine production quality.
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Expert notes that regression analysis is one of the popular tools for studying the relationship between response and predictors, and that he has frequently used it in consulting work. Recently, he helped a company study the uncertainty involved in the response through predictors and helped another company set up a regression model for a chemical process of interest. He has also been called upon to help clients fit models for situations where assumptions are violated.
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Expert notes that the most effective way for quality improvement is "design-in-quality." He also states that important techniques involved in designing quality into products include experimental designs, Taguchi methods, and response surface methodology. He has done research projects and taught graduate-level courses in this area. He has also helped companies to design experiments and has provided lectures to engineers.
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Expert states that the term statistical data analysis broadly includes most applied statistical techniques such as regression analysis, analysis of variance, sampling, sample size determination, variance component analysis, multivariate analysis, and discrete data analysis. He has more than ten years of consulting experience in industry and academia. He has extensive knowledge of statistical techniques and statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, BMDP, and MINITAB. He is also familiar with IBM PC, mainframe, and Macintosh personal computers.
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Capability analysis is a core technique for quality control. Expert has conducted research and consulting work in the area.
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Expert frequently conducts chi-square tests for survey data and categorical data.
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Expert conducts statistical consulting projects using curve fitting techniques very often. This is part of commonly used modeling techniques.
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Curvilinear regression modeling is a technique used in many statistical applications. Expert teaches and conducts consulting work using this technique often.
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Expert applies F-distribution in all of the data analysis using ANOVA.
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Expert applies factor analysis in many statistical consulting works for reducing the dimensionality of multiple variables and to find meaningful factors.
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Expert uses model fitting techniques for many consulting projects. Regression is one of such techniques.
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Expert uses histograms and many other exploratory data analysis tools in data analysis on a regular basis.
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Expert uses the regression method for modeling constantly. Linear regression is a special case.
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Expert applies the Monte Carlo method often for checking if a statistical technique is appropriate under certain assumptions that we encounter during data analysis.
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Expert has used multiple regression function and multivariate statistical analysis for modeling very often in many consulting projects.
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In data analysis, it is common practice for Expert to check the normality assumption when applying techniques requiring normality assumption.
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Expert teaches and conducts consulting in statistical quality control related projects.
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Expert is an applied statistician. Statistical methods are the tools he uses on a regular basis.
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Survey design and analysis is an important part of Expert's statistical consulting service. He designs surveys, collect survey data, and analyze survey data very often.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Grand Rapids, Michigan;
Flint, Michigan;
Lansing, Michigan;
Southfield, Michigan;
Kalamazoo, Michigan;
Wyoming, Michigan;
Pontiac, Michigan;
Saginaw, Michigan;
Royal Oak, Michigan;
and Battle Creek, Michigan.
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1984
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Ph.D.
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Statistics
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Iowa State University
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1979
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M.A.
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Mathematics
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University of West Florida
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1976
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B.S.
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Agronomy
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National Taiwan University
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1992 to
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(Undisclosed University)
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Department of Mathematics
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Professor
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Expert teaches all levels of statistics courses from undergraduate to Ph.D. level. He is a statistical consultant for the university, nearby industries, and educational organizations. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Research and Technology at Expert's University. He works on knowledge discovery projects supported by companies using data mining and business intelligence techniques such as neural networks, tree modeling, and association analytical methods. The clients he has worked for include several Fortune 500 companies. He is a former university student learning outcomes assessment coordinator, responsible for assisting program units to develop learning outcomes assessment plans and to help program units to conduct assessment activities.
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1988 to 1992
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(Undisclosed University)
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Department of Mathematics
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Associate Professor
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1990 to 1991
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National Central University, Taiwan
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Graduate Institute of Statistics
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Visiting Associate Professor
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1984 to 1988
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(Undisclosed University)
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Department of Mathematics
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Assistant Professor
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1976 to 1978
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National Taiwan University
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Computer Center
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Computer Programmer
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of the American Statistical Association, the Biometrics Society, the Chinese Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, and the Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education.
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Professional Appointments
He is the President of the Mid-Michigan Chapter, American Statistical Association. He has served as a referee for several statistical journals and as a grant reviewer for NSF and other grant institutions. Expert is also responsible for the creation of the Statistics Program at Expert's University.
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Awards/Recognition
He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He received an award for distinguished leadership in statistical education and applied statistics by the American Biographical Institute.
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Publications and Patents Summary
Expert has published more than 40 articles in professional journals, and he has regularly presented research papers at statistical conferences.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Handbook of Case Studies, organized by American Standards Association
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- Biometrical Journal
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- The American Statistical Association
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- Journal of Health Promotion
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- Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
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Expert is currently the statistical consultant and evaluator for the project on developing programs to prevent school violence and provide drug-free learning environment conducted by the Regional Educational School District in the Mid-Michigan area. The duties include designing assessment instruments, visiting school sites, developing an evaluation plan and conducting the evaluation of the effectiveness of the implemented programs.
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Recent Client Requests:
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Expert in benchmark study statistical analysis.
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1990 to 1991
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Taiwan
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Expert was a visiting professor at a university in Taiwan. He also did his undergraduate education in Taiwan.
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Chinese
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Expert is fluent in Chinese.
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Taiwanese
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He is a fluent speaker of the Taiwanese language.
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Training/Seminars
Expert developed an SPSS Web training workshop. This was done using movie clips to demonstrate a step-by-step approach for data analysis using SPSS. He is the Expert's University Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Coordinator. He frequently presents workshops to faculty on subjects related to developing assessment plans, and conducting assessment activities. Recently, he presented workshops on classroom assessment and the issues of learning styles. Each workshop lasted for aproximately two hours.
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Other Skills and Services
Expert's undergraduate degree was in agronomy. He has a strong background in biological science and has been involved with many projects in medical and biological sciences in academia and industry. His consulting responsibilities while at Iowa State University focused on clients from the Biological Sciences School.
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