Psychometrics, standardized testing, cognitive psychology, surveys.

t-test, ANOVA, MANOVA, correlational analysis, regression analysis. Chi-square, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney U, (test) item analysis, item response theory.

SPSS, Excel, Word.

PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics, Columbia University, New York. Dissertation title: Effects of problem features on strategy selection in mathematics word problems.
BSE in Engineering Science, Cooper Union, New York

Dr. Berger worked as a researcher and tests and measurements consultant at the New York City Board of Education and at the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation in Jerusalem. She taught the graduate course Classroom Testing at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dr. Berger has made several conference presentations, including ones at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. She interned at ETS (Educational Testing Service) in Princeton, NJ and published in the ETS Research Report Series.

Social science, social policy, sociology, public health, business, demography, psychology, biostatistics

Crosstabulations, chi-square analysis, correlational analysis. Linear regression, logistic regression, Cox regression. Cluster analysis, trees. Smallest space analysis. Analysis of qualitative data using quantitative measurements. ROC curves.

SAS, SPSS, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

PhD in Sociology, University of Chicago. Dissertation title: How Israeli Palestinians construe their identities

MA in Statistics, University of Chicago. Thesis title: The analysis of contingency tables using quantitative scores

BA in Sociology, Harvard University - magna cum laude

Dr. Schimmel, a Fulbright scholar, graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude. She has worked as a statistician and researcher in prestigious institutions in the US and Israel, including the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research and the University of Chicago. She has published in journals such as “Blood” and “Journal of Health and Social Behavior,” and has presented papers at many conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association and the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Medicine (cardiovascular disease, nephrology, neurology, gynecology, immunology, pediatrics, surgery), nutrition, epidemiology, biotechnology, pharmaceutics. Quality of life studies, visual analogue scales, surveys.

Sample size calculations, data analysis including descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing. Interpretation of data. Data summarization, inferences from data, estimating and comparing means and proportions including three or more means, association and prediction including linear and logistic regression. Survival analysis. Design and development of research projects; data analysis for ongoing research. Protocol development. Research design, research methods, and research implementation, including cross-sectional, retrospective, prospective, and clinical trial designs.

SPSS, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Statistix, Prism, GraphPad, MediCalc, Analyze-It

PhD in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Sackler Medical Faculty at Tel Aviv University. Dissertation title: Secondary prevention using antioxidants of cardiovascular disease in endstage renal disease - SPACE

MSc in Nutrition Science, California State University, Los Angeles. Thesis title: Biochemical and anthropometric indicators of malnutrition in patients with AIDS

BA in Psychobiology, UCLA

Certification in Good Clinical Practice (GCP; FDA-approved course)

Dr. Boaz, an epidemiologist and biostatistician, serves as principal investigator in her capacity as the director of the epidemiology/research unit at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel. As a consultant to pharmaceutical companies (including Teva, Israel’s largest pharmaceutical company), her projects included protocol design, investigatory drug applications, clinical trial reports, investigators’ brochures, integrated summary of safety reports, scientific papers, and marketing materials. She has published in many peer-reviewed journals, including “The Lancet,” “Kidney International,” “Pediatrics,” and “American Journal of Kidney Diseases.” She taught epidemiology at Tel Aviv University and has received numerous grants for her research totaling over $130,000.

Business, economics, biology, genetics, medicine, public health, geriatrics, biotechnology, bioinformatics, epidemiology, pharmaceutics, pharmacology, immunology, psychology, education, sociology, demography, social science. Surveys; tutoring.

Data analysis including descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing, such as t-tests, ANOVA, correlational analysis, crosstabulations, chi-square analysis, linear and logistic regression. Interpretation of data, data summarization, inferences from data, estimating and comparing means and proportions, association and prediction.

SAS, Enterprise Guide, Excel, Matlab, Mathematica, Word, FrameMaker, PowerPoint.

MSc (with honors) in Mathematical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.
Thesis title: How to Make Stability Studies More Efficient.

BSc (with honors) in Mathematics, Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden.

BA (with honors) in French and Hebrew, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden. Thesis title: L'Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP) et Nicolas Sarkozy.

At the Department of Biostatistics at AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden, Mr. Turvall dealt with statistical problems in drug research, especially stability studies. As a statistician at the Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics at Hadassah University Hospital, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Mr. Turvall was responsible for the statistical analyses within the Jerusalem Longitudinal Study. At present, Mr. Turvall works in the research department of the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation in Jerusalem, where he is in charge of analyzing and evaluating higher education entrance exams and surveys.

One of Mr. Turvall's native languages is English.

Market segmentation and other business problems that lend themselves to data-mining techniques
System problems that involve determining the optimal levels of parameters that influence overall performance

Data mining, design of experiments

Statistica, Java programming, databases, computer simulation

MS in Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley

MBA, Marketing, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Lawrence Feldman developed and implemented mathematical models for the operations research departments of top firms such as American Airlines, International Paper, and Elta (Israel Aircraft Industries), and served as a statistician and computer-simulation developer at TeraOp Optical Networking, an Israeli high-tech startup.

Elie Lebowitz has extensive experience tutoring students in statistics. He has consulted as a statistician in the social sciences (psychology, sociology, education, criminology and social work), as well as in medicine and dentistry.

Parametric tests, including: t-test, ANOVA, MANOVA (for between and within subject models), post hoc tests (e.g., Scheffe), GLM, correlational analysis, regression analysis (Pearson, Spearman, rpb [point-biserial correlation], multiple regression). Non-parametric tests, including: chi-square, Wilcoxon for dependent and independent samples, Mann-Whitney U, Phi correlations. Cluster analysis, path analysis, and factor analysis. Reliability tests.

SPSS, STATISTICA, Office, Internet

PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Tel Aviv University. Thesis title: Violent behavior patterns in obsessive-compulsive children and adolescents

MA in Psychology (en route to PhD), Tel Aviv University

BA in Psychology and Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel - summa cum laude

Consulting researchers and students in medicine, dentistry, biology, pharmacology, economics, and social science. Areas of medicine include community medicine, general surgery, immunology, nursing, neuro-oncology, genetics, clinical biochemistry, clinical microbiology, tissue typing, and pediatrics.

All techniques, reliability and analysis of satisfaction surveys.

SPSS, SAS, S+, Access, Visual Access, Pascal, VB, databases.

MA in Applied Statistics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
BA in Statistics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

At Telrad (an Israeli telecommunications company), Ms. Knaanie was in charge of statistics for the production department. There, she designed experiments, analyzed internal and customer satisfaction surveys, analyzed alpha and beta sites, and performed quality analysis involving statistics. She taught a course in statistical methods at Israel's Meteorological Authority. Earlier, she served as a teaching assistant for courses in statistics taken by medical students and students in the social sciences.